Basic Skills in Industries Business start up

Basic Skills in Industries Business start 

No matter what part of the world you are if you are truly proficient and sufficiently proud of your culture and have all the ingredients necessary around you, you can specialise in some aspect of your own cultural industry.  But, people need a broad range of skills in order to contribute to a modern economy and take their place in the technological society. The development of people’s proficiency in basic and key skills is now a central part of personal development.

 BASIC SKILLS

Basic skills are defined: literacy in English and numeracy  as well as English as a second language if you are abroad. You need Key skills for Communication, Application of Number, Information Technology, Working with Others, Improving Own Learning and Performance, and Problem Solving. There is always support for individuals to develop key skills is regarded as a central feature of the strategy to increase national prosperity through the development of a highly-skilled and well-educated workforce which is able to play a full part in the knowledge-based economy.

The Moser Report (1999) revealed that approximately 20 per cent of adults in England, about seven million people, ‘have more or less severe problems with basic skills, in particular with what is generally called ‘functional literacy’ and ‘functional numeracy’.

The report stated that:

It is staggering that over the years millions of children have been leaving school hardly able to read and write, and that today millions of adults have the same problems.

The report also noted that only approximately 250,000 of the seven million adults, around 28 per cent, had taken part in relevant programmes of study to improve their basic skills.

A study undertaken by Sticht (2001), with the objective of determining factors which may motivate adults with basic skills needs to improve their skills, found that the main reasons cited for participating in such programmes included the following:

• emotional – to feel better about themselves

• practical – to be better at everyday tasks that involve basic skills

• to improve IT skills

• to obtain a qualification

• the course was near home.

However, as Tremlett (1995) states, individuals with basic skills problems are generally less likely to be current or past learners. For example, at any time, only five percent of the estimated seven million adults in the UK with limited basic skills receive formal assistance (Love and Banks 2001).

So have no fear there is always someone to help you.