1. Employer Requirements from Young
People - Core
Be functionally literate
• Read and understand basic texts – drawing out relevant information
• Construct properly spelt, grammatically correct writing that is suitable
for the audience
• Write with legible handwriting
• Understand oral communications and react appropriately
• Be sufficiently articulate to communicate orally.
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2. Employer Requirements from Young
People - Core
Be functionally numerate
• Multiplication tables and mental arithmetic
• Percentages, ratios, fractions, decimals
• Different measures and conversion between them
• Spotting errors and rogue figures
• Odds and probabilities
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3. Employer Requirements from Young
People - Core
Have the required personal employability skills
• Self-management – readiness to accept responsibility, flexibility, time management,
readiness to improve own performance
• Teamworking – respecting others, co-operating, negotiating/persuading, contributing to
discussions
• Business and customer awareness – basic understanding of the key drivers for
business success and the need to provide customer satisfaction
• Problem solving – analysing facts and circumstances and applying creative thinking to
develop appropriate solutions
• Communication and literacy – application of literacy, ability to produce clear, structured
written work and oral literacy, including listening and questioning
• Application of numeracy – manipulation of numbers, general mathematical awareness
and its application in practical contexts
• Application of information technology – basic IT skills, including familiarity with word
processing, spreadsheets, file management and use of internet search engines
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4. Employer Requirements from Young
People - Additional
• IT skills
• Science and Maths
• Additional Learning Options
• academic, vocational, applied
• “extra curricular”
• Access to Information, Advice and Guidance
• Record of achievement
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5. Current pre 19 Delivery and Issues
• Academic subjects
• GCSE Maths and English proxy for numeracy and literacy
• Vocational patchwork
• Apprenticeship improvement
• Too much failure and not enough “ingrained functional
skills”
• Personal/Employability Skills – absent/informal/minority
• who is responsible?
• teaching and assessment
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6. Conclusion
• Clear employer requirements
• Mismatch with pre 19 education system
• embedded functional skills
• personal and employability skills
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