Services to Business

Skills for Life Employer Engagement - Off Site Provision

What We Do

The Skills for Life department is dedicated to providing professional and friendly service to local employers to help engage and up-skill members of staff and guide them towards achieving qualifications and certifications in the following areas:

Maths and English
ICT - covering all aspects of the Microsoft Office software
ESOL - English for Speakers of Other Languages

Who is it aimed at?

Our courses are designed to engage adults with a variety of needs; we typically offer help in these areas:

To improve promotion prospects
For people wishing to gain entry to higher level qualifications
To update old skills and gain a new certificate
To gain confidence and prove to yourself that you can achieve Maths and English qualifications
For parents wanting to help their children with homework

Courses Available

Numeracy and Literacy

The National Test in Numeracy and Literacy provides adults with the opportunity to achieve GCSE equivalent qualifications by working at their own pace with support from our qualified tutors in a variety of formats including:

Individual or group activities on work premises
Individual or group activities at a West Suffolk College learning centre
On-line flexible learning programme - Target Skills Gold - provided with full tutor support

We can help with all aspects of each subject, including those tricky areas...

Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation

Using our exam server laptop system we are able to offer all our students the opportunity to achieve certificates in their chosen subjects.

ICT

Our ICT element is an add-on to the National Tests, allowing students on these courses the opportunities to improve their computer skills along with their Numeracy and Literacy.

We offer eDCC* accreditation and create bespoke learning resources to meet the needs of indvidual students.

We typically cover the following subjects: