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Skills For Life and ESOL

ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages)

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  • Do you want FREE training that will help your employees get the basic skills they need?

  • Want to improve your employees’ Maths and English skills to help increase efficiency and productivity?

Poor literacy and numeracy of your employees could cost your business money. (Source: DfES research - Firms with 51 – 100 employees)

As an employer, it is in your interest to invest in the development of your workforce.

Addressing literacy, language and numeracy skills needs amongst your workforce not only improves their confidence and performance it’s also good business practice that can yield far reaching results.

Support and training in basic skills can boost employee confidence and access to other training and progression opportunities within the workplace. A confident, flexible and skilled workforce is responsive to change - leading to effectiveness and efficiency.

The Skills for Life training for businesses helps to improve basic skills in the workplace.

What we do:

  • Offer free training for your employees
  • Train at the workplace
  • Tailor our courses to suit your business
  • Provide experienced tutors at a time to suit you
  • Help learners to achieve nationally recognised qualifications up to Level 2 in Maths and English

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For further information about Skills for Life and ESOL courses, please call Yeovil College on 01935 845419 or email SFL@yeovil.ac.uk

Skills for Life

In the Part-time courses section of the website details can be found about:

Literacy: Communication; Including effective verbal communication and writing reports.

Numeracy: Maths at all levels which can lead into a Certificate in Numeracy at FE level 2.

These consist of an initial assessment followed by tailored delivery in a flexible format.

Also, under Part-time courses, details are avilable for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Skills for Life Professional Development and Open Link, see Skills for Life web page.