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Employability Skills (HOME5)

Course Code: HOME5
  • Level: 1
  • Qualification: Award
  • Awarding body: City & Guilds (C&G)
  • Duration: 5 weeks (part of a 36 week programme)
  • Course type: Part-time
  • Time of day: Daytime
  • When you'll study: Days and times to be agreed at the start of the programme dependant on the qualification. Home educated students will attend up to a maximum of 18 hours per week (including functional skills delivery).

What's it all about?

This course will help to prepare you for work or further education, in addition to furthering your personal development.

Course information

HOME5 – Award Units

  • planning for personal progression
  • managing personal finance.
English and maths functional skills will be offered alongside the main objectives of the programme.

This programme is only eligible for young people who are registered as ‘electively home educated’ with their Local Education Authority. Those registered with a school, or having officially left school are not eligible.

The qualification is achieved through course assignments.

You will work through a workbook for each unit to meet the assessment criteria once you have attended taught sessions. There are also exams for the English and maths functional skills part of the study programme. 

On successful completion of the course you may progress onto a full-time course at the College, or Apprenticeship.

Please note fees are quoted for one year only.

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Future careers

What you could earn:

Elected Officers and Representatives

£98,255.43

Potential salary

£16,785.13

Entry level salary

£42,395.99

Average salary

3

Annual openings in Plymouth

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