What are Core Skills?
Core Skills news
- Exemplification material covering the Core Skills Communication Units, Speaking and Listening (level 3 to 6)
- Amendments to the Workplace Assessed Core Skills Unit in Communication (level 5)
- Extension to the Accreditation of Workplace Assessed Core Skills Units
- Information about equivalent Literacy and Numeracy qualifications
- Information about how Core Skills are recognised within National Qualifications
Core Skills Units continue to be available
Core Skills Units are unaffected by the recent National Qualifications changes.
Some centres have been in touch with us to ask if they should deliver the new National 3, 4 or 5 Units in Literacy and Numeracy, or the Communication and Numeracy Core Skills Units at the same levels, as both sets of units cover very similar ground. Centres can decide for themselves which qualifications will be of most value to their candidates.
Many schools may offer the new Literacy and Numeracy Units that have been introduced, although colleges may continue offering the Core Skills Units, as they still form part of many of the NC, NPA and MA frameworks.
Core Skills Profile
As with the Core Skills Units, SQA currently has no plans to remove or alter the Core Skills Profile that is included at the end of the Scottish Qualifications Certificate (SQC). When candidates receive their certificates, they will continue to be credited with the achievement of Core Skills components that are embedded within any of the qualifications they have completed.