National Qualifications 14-18

Core skills aim to help people throughout their lives in education, training and work.

They are built into National Units and National Courses, so students don’t have to sit additional assessments – core skills can also be studied as units in their own right.

At the moment there are five certificated core skills:

• Problem solving 
• Communication 
• Numeracy 
• Information technology (often referred to in schools and colleges as ICT – information and communications technology – which involves using computers and the internet) 
• Working with others.