Introduction

Word processing
Database
Internet
Spreadsheets
Notes
 
 

produced by
Andrew Hill
November 2002

  What are Key Skills?  
 

Key skills are the general skills that can help you to improve your own learning and performance. They are relevant to what you do in education and training, work and life in general. There are a number of Key Skill courses that are run, and they do exactly what they say on the label, that is give you a skill that is considered to by key to what ever you do in later life. The 3 Skills that are considered to be key to you in the future are :

  • Using ICT effectively
  • Being able to Communicate with others well
  • Being Confident with the Application of Numbers

This section is all about the first: Information and Communication Technology