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- Maths for deaf people: Manage your time (pre-entry - entry 1)Course start date: Mon 6 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
During the course you will develop skills in learning independently, communicating with your tutor and other students. You will develop your ability to use your own initiative, carry out research and complete tasks either independently or in collaboration with others. The course is practical and the skills you learn can be used in everyday life situations. There are no exams to this course.
This course is free for learners who have not achieved a GCSE grade C (4) and higher in Maths. For more information Click here
Full fee £0.00 - Basic DS skills for deaf people: Getting started with online learning (pre-entry - entry 1) - part 2Course start date: Tue 7 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This complete course for beginners will help to become a confident user of your computer from setting it up to understanding and using basic digital skills functions.
This course is free for learners who have digital skills assessed as below level 1. For more information Click here
Full fee £0.00 - Maths for ESOL (entry 1-entry 2)Course start date: Mon 13 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Free course: This is a Multiply course. Multiply is a new government programme to help adults improve their numeracy skills. This course is free for Londoners aged 19 or over. For more information Click here
Full fee £15.00 - Maths skills for life and work - getting ready for functional skills (pathway 1)Course start date: Tue 14 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Do you need to improve your everyday maths so you become more confident when making calculations with money, interpreting figures, charts and graphs in newspapers or measuring rooms? Do you want to achieve a functional skills qualification but are not yet ready? This course will help you with the essential maths you need to participate fully in society, make progress at work and solve everyday problems. You will work on tasks commonly completed inside and outside the workplace, which require the use of whole numbers, decimals and fractions as well as solving problems involving time, money and measurement. You will discover the properties of 2D and 3D shapes, how to read, interpret and comment on information in tables and charts. By the end of the course, you will be much more aware of how much maths there is in everyday life and how maths can help you.
You need to do a pre-course assessment. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for a face-to-face assessment or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name).
Free course: This is a Multiply course. Multiply is a new government programme to help adults improve their numeracy skills. This course is free for Londoners aged 19 or over. For more information Click here
Full fee £15.00 - ESOL, maths and digital skills - for life and work (entry 1-entry 2)Course start date: Mon 21 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
For students who can are not complete beginners and can speak and write a little English. On this course you will learn new words and grammar, how to ask and answer questions, how to read and write about yourself, your family, and friends, and how to complete forms and write short emails. You will also learn some simple maths to tell the time, count and learn maths vocabulary.
You need to do a pre-course assessment. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for a face-to-face assessment or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name).
Free course: This is a Multiply course. Multiply is a new government programme to help adults improve their numeracy skills. This course is free for Londoners aged 19 or over. For more information Click here
Full fee £140.00 Concession £70.00 - Maths for deaf people: Manage shopping and spending (pre-entry - entry 1)Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
During the course you will develop skills in learning independently, communicating with your tutor and other students. You will develop your ability to use your own initiative, carry out research and complete tasks either independently or in collaboration with others.
The course is practical and the skills you learn can be used in everyday life situations. There are no exams to this course.
This course is free for learners who have not achieved a GCSE grade C (4) and higher in Maths. For more information Click here
Full fee £0.00 - Pre Entry ESOL (Intro to reading and writing english) 2425Course start date: Thu 1 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here
Full fee £0.00 - English grammar for deaf people (entry 1) - part 2Course start date: Mon 6 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This course is suitable if you have enough vocabulary to be able to read and write basic sentences. During this course, you will learn more vocabulary and grammar to help you talk, read and write about yourself, your family and friends and complete forms, short sms and e-mails. This course has no exams.
This course is free for learners who have not achieved a GCSE grade C (4) and higher in English. For more information Click here
Full fee £0.00 - English for deaf people: Getting started with vocabulary - part 2 (pre-entry - entry 1)Course start date: Wed 8 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This course is suitable if you have recently arrived in the UK from abroad and/or missed out on the education at school due to communication barriers. This course will help you to develop your basic communication skills in various social settings such as starting, maintaining and ending the conversations, confirming your understanding of the conversation flow and/or ask for clarification if/when necessary, asking and answering questions on various social topics etc. You will develop your basic vocabulary linked to everyday life, spelling and punctuation.You will also develop basic study skills to help you to complete simple tasks and do homework on your own. This course has no exam. To be able to participate in this course, you will need to have basic BSL skills.
This course is free for learners who have not achieved a GCSE grade C (4) and higher in English. For more information Click here
Full fee £0.00 - Digital skills and English for deaf people: Improve your English via Word (entry 2) - part 2Course start date: Fri 10 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This course will help you to get confident in reading, writing and communication. You will learn to read pieces of texts, write sentences, spell correctly and use punctuation.You will also learn all the basic functions of creating Word documents: adding, copying, moving and formatting text, inserting pictures and creating tables, checking spelling and grammar, changing the page layout and printing different documents accurately. This course has no exams.
This course is free for learners who have digital skills assessed as below level 1. For more information Click here
Full fee £0.00 - English grammar for deaf people (entry 1) - part 3Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This course is suitable if you have enough vocabulary to be able to read and write basic sentences. During this course, you will learn more vocabulary and grammar to help you talk, read and write about yourself, your family and friends and complete forms, short sms and e-mails. This course has no exams.
This course is free for learners who have not achieved a GCSE grade C (4) and higher in English. For more information Click here
Full fee £0.00 - English for deaf people: Getting started with vocabulary - part 3 (pre-entry - entry 1)Course start date: Wed 30 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This course is suitable if you have recently arrived in the UK from abroad and/or missed out on the education at school due to communication barriers. This course will help you to develop your basic communication skills in various social settings such as starting, maintaining and ending the conversations, confirming your understanding of the conversation flow and/or ask for clarification if/when necessary, asking and answering questions on various social topics etc. You will develop your basic vocabulary linked to everyday life, spelling and punctuation.You will also develop basic study skills to help you to complete simple tasks and do homework on your own. This course has no exam. To be able to participate in this course, you will need to have basic BSL skills.
This course is free for learners who have not achieved a GCSE grade C (4) and higher in English. For more information Click here
Full fee £0.00 - Digital skills and English for deaf people: Improve your English via Word (entry 2) - part 3Course start date: Fri 2 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This course will help you to get confident in reading, writing and communication. You will learn to read pieces of texts, write sentences, spell correctly and use punctuation.You will also learn all the basic functions of creating Word documents: adding, copying, moving and formatting text, inserting pictures and creating tables, checking spelling and grammar, changing the page layout and printing different documents accurately. This course has no exams.
This course is free for learners who have digital skills assessed as below level 1. For more information Click here
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