Key Skills

Key Skills Key skills are the essential skills you need to do well in education, training, to succeed at work and get on in life and are are usually taken as part of other awards and qualifications. They are available to all young people in full time learning.

There are three main key skills:

• Communication;
• Application of Numbers; and
• Information Technology (IT).

They consist of a portfolio of evidence and an external test.

Three wider key skills are:

• Working with others;
• Improving your own learning and performance; and
• Problem solving.