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Essential Skills Wales

Essential skills are a new set of qualifications that are being developed in Wales and will be available from September 2010.  That is also the date that key skills and basic skills will no longer be available in Wales.

There are likely to eventually be six essential skills:

  • Communication
  • Application of Number
  • Information and Communication Technology.
  • Working with Others
  • Improving own Learning and Performance
  • Problem Solving.

Essential skills may be standalone qualifications but may also be studied as part of other qualifications.  There will be essential skills at entry level, level 1, level 2, level 3 and level 4.

More information (although it is not really written for students) is available here:

http://accac.org.uk/eng/content.php?mID=752