Key Skills
Vocational qualification
In Scarborough
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Vocational qualification
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Location
Scarborough
Key Skills are skills that can help you to improve your own learning and performance in education, work and life in general. They are important in your learning because they help you to focus on what and how you are learning so that you can get better results. The Universities will generally give credit for Key Skills when you apply for higher education courses.
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KEY SKILLS
Key Skills are skills that can help you to improve your own learning and performance in education, work and life in general. They are important in your learning because they help you to focus on what and how you are learning so that you can get better results. The Universities will generally give credit for Key Skills when you apply for higher education courses.
They are important in your future career because they enable you to be flexible in whatever kind of work you do. Employers are increasingly interested in Key Skills.
They are important in your personal life because they can help you to organise yourself, handle information and work and communicate with others.
Which Key Skills will I develop?
At College you will have the opportunity to work towards Key Skills qualifications in:
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Communication
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Information Technology
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to demonstrate you have these skills through a portfolio of evidence
that will be collected from your activities at College.
The College will be entering students for Key Skills at Levels 2 and 3.
As you move up the levels you are expected to take more responsibility for decisions on how to use your skills to suit different tasks, problems and situations.
Examples of the sorts of skills you will develop:
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Communication:
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Participating in group discussions
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Making a presentation
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Reading and synthesising information
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Writing documents
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Information Technology:
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Compare the advantages and limitations of using different IT sources
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Use automated routines
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Develop and refine the presentation of text, images and numbers
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Analyse and interpret numerical data using spreadsheet software,
generate graphs and charts
Key Skills