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There are
a number of reasons why a Key Skills course has been set up for you.
- In the
last few years while you may have been doing ICT as part of other
subjects at school or other training, you have not had specific ICT
Teaching that covers, in a integrated way, all of the basic skills
in using and applying ICT. Some of you may feel that your skills are
pretty good already, but some of you may feel that your ICT knowledge
is a bit disjointed. This course will put it all back together again
and make sense of it all by using your skills in real life situations.
- The
Key Skills course is about the practical application of ICT Skills.
There is not much theory on this course as all the time is spent on
doing something to either learn a skill or demonstrate its use in
a practical situation.
- The
Key Skills course is about improving your ICT skills so that you can
effectively use them to improve your work in other areas, so that
you can do better in your GCSEs, GNVQs, AVCEs, AS and A-levels. You
will also need these skills at work and in the education and training
you do in the future.
- So there
is nothing new about key skills. You are using them already, all the
time. What’s new is that you are being given the chance to get
better at them and to get a qualification that shows how good you
are. This will boost your grades and help universities and employers
to judge exactly what you can do.
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