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Skills for Life
Whether you’re growing your business, changing your career or just starting out, it all starts with skills.
Skills for Life is a lifelong learning strategy for improving skills, designed to help learners develop their reading, writing, maths, technical, and digital skills. It provides education and training; including courses in digital, numeracy and transferable skills; apprenticeships; and vocational qualifications in further education colleges.
Explore your options below or find out more on the DfE Skills for Life website
Essential Skills courses teach you the skills you need for everyday life and most jobs.
A T Level gives you a mix of learning in the classroom and on the job. Businesses and employers helped design T Levels to teach you the skills you'll need.
Apprenticeships are real jobs that allow you to earn a wage while you learn. You'll work alongside experienced staff to learn on the job.
Higher technical qualifications that employers have helped develop so you can get the right training and skills you need to succeed at work.
Skills Bootcamps teach you skills for specific careers and sectors with a guaranteed job interview at the end.