Essential Skills

Whether you're preparing for further study, re-entering education, or simply looking to improve your everyday skills, our essential skills courses are designed to build your core abilities in English and Maths.  These courses focus on strengthening communication, numeracy, and problem-solving and are widely recognised for progression into further study including teaching programmes.

Our courses

We also offer free, fully flexible numeracy courses through the Multiply government programme. Find out more >

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National 5 English

Higher English

What's next?

Our courses can help with entry into HNC and degree programmes and are beneficial for individuals wishing to progress to a teaching programme.

Meet The Team

Michele Smith Core Skills Lecturer

Michele Smith

Core Skills Lecturer

Stephen Duff Core Skills Lecturer

Stephen Duff

Core Skills Lecturer

Where learning means more

Keywords related to our essential skills courses laid out in a random cluster. The words are: communication, learning, English, culture, problem solving, writing, maths and numeracy

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