English Functional Skills - Online Courses - Adult Learning

About this course

This accredited Functional Skills course aims to improve your English skills and your confidence in using these.

Our experienced staff will help you to improve your reading, writing and speaking and listening.

You will start by doing an initial assessment, to decide, with your tutor which level you will be working at from Entry level 3 to Level 2.

You will be assessed near the end of the course on these three elements and once you have successfully completed these you will achieve a City and Guilds Functional Skills English qualification.

This course has been designed to be delivered online over 18 weeks, but you will be asked to attend your assessments in one of our Nottinghamshire libraries at the end of the course. Your tutor will arrange this with you. Please make sure that you can attend the lesson each week and that you will be able to attend an exam before enrolling on the course.

If you are new to learning English as a second language, an ESOL course may be more suitable for you, and these are listed on our website.

What you will need to bring to the course:

• You will require access to a laptop or PC with internet access on which group Teams classes will be delivered by your tutor.

• All resources that you need will be supplied by the tutor, but you may wish to have your own notebook to work in as well.

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

• Greater London

• Greater Manchester

• Liverpool City Region

• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

• Tees Valley

• West of England

• West Midlands

• West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.