Course Overview

Functional Skills are ideal if you wish to get ahead and up skill for progression in the workplace or prior to enrolling onto a higher level programme. Over the course of this qualification you will learn practical mathematics skills required in everyday life, education and work.

Key Facts

  • Attendance: You will not attend College for tuition, instead you will work through the course materials on your own with telephone and email support from an allocated Distance Learning Tutor.  All resources, support and assessment will be provided online via our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). You will, however, be required to attend one of The College of Animal Welfare centres to complete the online examination. It may be possible in some instances, depending on your circumstances and the availability of an external centre, to undertake the examination at an external City & Guilds exam centre. In such cases where this is possible additional exam fees may be incurred.
  • Duration: Six months
  • Start Date: You may start this programme at any time during the year.
  • Location: This online distance learning course can be studied anywhere in the UK.
Course Content

This Functional Skills Maths qualification assesses three interrelated process skills:

Representing

  • Understand routine and non-routine problems in familiar and unfamiliar contexts and situations
  • Identify the situation or problems and identify the mathematical methods needed to solve them
  • Choose from a range of mathematics to find solutions

Analysing

  • Apply a range of mathematics to find solutions
  • Use appropriate checking procedures and evaluate their effectiveness at each stage

Interpreting

  • Interpret and communicate solutions to multi-stage practical problems in familiar and unfamiliar contexts and situations
  • Draw conclusions and provide mathematical justifications

Assessment

You will undertake written assessments and pass an online examination. You will be required to attend a City & Guilds examination centre to complete the online examination; this can be arranged near to your home where possible.

Entry Requirements

There are no formal academic entry requirements.

Please note that if you require Functional Skills in both English and Maths you will need to complete one qualification and then the other, any funding availability will be assessed for each qualification independently.

Please note: As our courses include online learning components, students are required to have access to a PC or laptop with a reliable internet connection.

Course Fees

Course Fee

£724

Awarding Body Fees*: £23.50
* these are payable by all students or employers and are recharged at cost and subject to change.

Course fees must be paid in full before the beginning of the course. A loan scheme is available, details can be found below.

CAW Loans2Learn
The CAW Loans2Learn scheme is a personal loan that can help you to spread the cost of your course into manageable payments over a period of up to 5 years. The loan can be used to fully or partially cover your course fees (but does not cover any awarding body fees, such as enrolment and examination fees). More information can be found here.

LOAN CALCULATOR
The current rate of interest for a CAW Loans2Learn is 9%. Click on the calculator icon to calculate your monthly repayment options based on different repayment term lengths.

 

Sources of financial help can be found on our student finance page. Before making any financial decision it is recommended that you seek advice from an independent source, for example the Money Advice Service.

If you have not achieved your qualification by the planned end date detailed in your individual learning plan, continued support and course access is available by paying monthly direct debit payments, or applying for a supplementary or increased loan, until certification is achieved.

These are current figures and may be subject to change. The differences in course fees reflect the level of funding that is available as a result of government policies and priorities. These may be as a result of age, employment status, previous education achievements, or location for example, and are outside the control of The College of Animal Welfare.

What Next?

Achieving this qualification will increase your confidence and practical skills, which will be valuable in the workplace or in any further learning.

Professionally, undertaking a qualification that demonstrates functional skills to employers can give you a competitive edge in the jobs market, meaning that more jobs and opportunities for promotion may become available to you.

Functional Skills form a vital part of all apprenticeship frameworks in England and can, in some cases, can be used to aid enrolment onto higher level programmes of study. You may also wish to undertake the Functional Skills English level 2 qualification.