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Essential skills (English, Maths, English for speakers of other languages, and digital skills)

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Gateshead Council Learning and Skills offer a wide range of courses that can build your confidence in English, maths and digital skills. You may be starting at the beginning- ready to learn to speak English for the first time or want to learn to read and write. You may already have some skills and even a qualification in English, maths or digital skills already but want to improve on these.

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      Digital Functional Skills (DFS)
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      • about About Digital Functional Skills Qualifications are available at entry level 3 and level 1.
      ESOL - English for Speakers of Other Languages
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      • about About ESOL programmes provide English support to those learning English as a second language. The programmes aim to develop reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.
      Functional Skills English
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      • about About The English programmes focus on spelling, punctuation, grammar, writing for different purposes, analysing and using different texts, reading comprehension skills and speaking and listening skills.
      Functional Skills Maths
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      • about About The Maths programmes includes the four operation rules (+ - × ÷), fractions and percentages methods, measure, shape and space content, ratio and scale methods, formulae rules and more.