Funding for maths and English courses

Employees with weaker maths and English skills can have a significant effect on your business, with high staff turnover and poor performance resulting in a cost to the economy up to £10bn a year.

...so having staff that possess good literacy and numeracy skills is a crucial success factor for most businesses.

In England 5.2 million adults have literacy levels below the levels required to achieve a GCSE grade D-G, while 6.8 million adults are estimated to have difficulties in adding/subtracting using three digit numbers. A total of 15 million adults have skills at the same low level and have difficulties with fractions, decimals and simple percentages.

It is estimated that at least half of those with poor basic skills are in employment and yet evidence shows that basic literacy and numeracy skills are critically important to performance at work.

At Bedford College Training Services we can now provide funded training to businesses in the East of England whose staff have maths and English training needs.

To be eligible, your staff must be aged 19 or over, have been resident in the UK for at least three years and live or work in the East of England.

To find out more contact our Business Development Team on 0300 011 2344 or complete our on-line enquiry form.