Skills and Education Group Awards · RQF Entry Level

SEG Awards Certa Entry Level Extended Certificate in Skills for Further Learning and Employment (Entry 3)

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Entry Level
  • Total credits26
  • Guided learning254 hours
  • Units in this qualification97

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What each unit actually teaches you to do

These are the units Skills and Education Group Awards registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

Basic CookingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Cook basic food items anddishes.
Basic Food PreparationReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Prepare food for cold presentation or cooking.
Bricklaying Tools, Equipment and MaterialsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify commonly used materials and equipment used for bricklaying
  • Stack and store materials
  • Use access equipment
  • Use a brick trowel
  • Re-point an area of brickwork
  • Measure, cut and level bricks
Building a Personal Career PortfolioReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know about own skills, abilities, experience, knowledge and personal qualities
  • Build a portfolio of personal/educational information
  • Produce a Curriculum Vitae (CV)
  • Identify personal goals
Business CommunicationReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know about forms of communication
  • Identify behaviour in teams
  • Know about the benefits of effective communication
Career PlanningReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know own strengths, qualities, skills and abilities
  • Know where to find sources of information, advice and guidance for career planning
  • Understand how own abilities relate to progression opportunities
  • Plan for transition to the next stage of education, training or work
Careers in the Hair and Beauty SectorReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know about career opportunities within the hair and beauty sector
  • Know the main hairdressing services and beauty treatments
Check that a Small Animal is HealthyReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Restrain and complete a health check on a small animal.
  • Know the signs of good health in a small animal.
Constructing a Half Brick Wall using Bricklaying SkillsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Use a range of hand tools used for constructing half brick wide walls.
  • Demonstrate relevant skills and techniques used in constructing half brick wide walls.
  • Understand the purpose of planning, organising and setting out a workstation.
  • Construct a half brick wall in stretcher bond.
Customer ServiceReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the benefits to an organisation of good customer service
  • Know about the possible consequences of poor customer service
  • Know about the value of giving customers a positive first impression of an organisation
  • Know about verbal and non-verbal interaction with customers
  • Respect customer needs
  • Deal with customer complaints
Customer Service in the Hospitality IndustryReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the benefits of good customer service.
  • Communicate with customers in the hospitality environment.
  • Know the importance of good personal presentation.
Developing Skills for a Healthy LifestyleReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand why personal fitness is important to good health.
  • Recognise the role that exercise plays in maintaining a healthy life style.
  • Understand the importance of a balanced diet in promoting personal good health.
  • Understand the importance of personal hygiene and good grooming in relation to living healthily.
  • Understand the basic issues of sex education and contraception in the context of sexual health.
  • Take responsibility for own health and lifestyle through action planning for the future.
Food Safety in the home and communityReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of handling food safely
  • Understand the importance of personal hygiene when handling food
  • Understand the importance of cleaning a food work area
  • Understand the importance of keeping food products safely
  • Handle food safely
Grammar and Punctuation in Practical UseReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Use writing to communicate.
  • Use grammar correctly.
  • Use punctuation correctly.
Group And Teamwork Communication SkillsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the roles and responsibilities associated with working in a group.
  • Interact with group members and staff.
  • Listen and understand.
  • Let others communicate within a group situation.
  • Know the importance of co-operation when working in group situations.
  • Accept and respond to praise and criticism.
  • Understand relationships within own team.
Group and Teamwork Communication SkillsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand methods of group and team communication.
  • Communicate verbally with group and team members in structured contexts.
  • Understand the role of the team leader.
  • Follow instructions from team leader.
Hair PlaitingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Prepare for a hair plaiting service.
  • Carry out hair plaiting techniques.
Hairdressing: Introduction to Assisting a StylistReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Assist stylist with technical service
  • Shampoo a client’s hair
Hairdressing: Introduction to Health and SafetyReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Comply with the health and safety requirements in a salon environment
  • Maintain personal hygiene and appearance
Hairdressing: Introduction to Working RelationshipsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Assist at reception
  • Liaise with clients
  • Liaise with colleagues
Hand CareReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Prepare for a hand care treatment
  • Provide hand care treatment
Healthy, Safety and First Aid at WorkReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know about the health and safety requirements of own workplace surroundings
  • Know about the main elements of Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
  • Prevent common accidents at work
  • Respond to first aid incidents
  • Recognise respiratory and cardiac arrest
  • Demonstrate resuscitation techniques and the recovery position
  • Safely handle and move inanimate loads
How the Body WorksReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know some functions of the skeletal and muscular systems.
  • Know the main components and functions of the cardio-respiratory system.
  • Know some nutrients for a healthy diet.
How the Body WorksReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the functions of the skeletal and muscular systems
  • Know the functions of the cardio-respiratory systems
  • Know the requirements of a healthy diet
Improving Own Learning and PerformanceReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Show an awareness of different ways of learning which reflects his/her likes and dislikes.
  • Use his/her own strengths, aptitudes and skills to determine realistic learning target(s).
  • Make decisions about how to achieve learning targets.
  • Review performance.
Induction to StudyReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know facilities in own learning environment
  • Know about Health and Safety Procedures
  • Use the library (learning resource centre)
  • Know about personal study planning
  • Know about working in groups in a learning situation
Interview SkillsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Prepare to be interviewed.
  • Respond to the interviewer’s questions.
  • Recognise effectiveness of own performance in an interview.
Introduction to Building and ConstructionReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the Building and Construction industry
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Building and Construction industry.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Building and Construction industry.
Introduction to Business AdministrationReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the Business and Administration sector.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Business and Administration sector.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Business and Administration sector.
Introduction to Business and AdministrationReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the Business and Administration sector.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Business and Administration sector.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Business and Administration sector.
Introduction to CateringReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the Catering sector.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Catering sector.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Catering sector.
Introduction to CateringReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the Catering sector.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Catering sector.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Catering sector.
Introduction to Customer Service SkillsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the benefits to the organisation of good customer service
  • Understand the possible consequences of poor customer service
  • Understand the value of first impressions
  • Understand positive verbal and non-verbal interaction with customers
  • Understand that respect for the individual is at the heart of good customer service
  • Understand own role in dealing with complaints from customers
Introduction to Drug Awareness for the IndividualReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the differences between types of drugs, including their legal status.
  • Know causes of drug misuse.
  • Recognise physical and psychological effects of drug misuse.
  • Identify the impact that drug misuse may have on others.
  • Identify health issues associated with drug misuse.
  • Know effects of withdrawing from drugs.
  • Identify agencies offering help and information on drug misuse.
Introduction to EngineeringReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the Engineering sector.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Engineering sector.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Engineering sector.
Introduction to EngineeringReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the Engineering sector.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Engineering sector.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Engineering sector.
Introduction to General Skills for Independent LivingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Demonstrate an awareness of the responsibilities of caring for their accommodation.
  • Recognise the importance of personal hygiene and of having clean clothes.
  • Understand the importance of a balanced diet and planned meals.
  • Develop an awareness of the care required to look after people.
  • Understand the importance of budgeting.
  • Recognise the importance of leisure time and suitable activities.
Introduction to Hairdressing and BeautyReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the Hairdressing and Beauty sector.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Hairdressing and Beauty sector.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Hairdressing and Beauty sector.
Introduction to Hairdressing and BeautyReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the hairdressing and beauty sector.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in the hairdressing and beauty sector.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the hairdressing and beauty sector.
Introduction to Health and Social CareReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the Health and Social Care sector.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in Health and Social Care.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in Health and Social Care.
Introduction to HospitalityReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the Hospitality sector.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Hospitality sector.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Hospitality sector.
Introduction to HospitalityReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the Hospitality sector.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Hospitality sector.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Hospitality sector.
Introduction to Keeping the Work Area Clean, Tidy and Safe in a Retail EnvironmentReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Clean work areas.
  • Dispose of waste and rubbish safely.
  • Ask for help in an accident or emergency.
Introduction to Land Based IndustriesReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of Land-Based Industries.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in Land-Based Industries.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in Land-Based Industries.
Introduction to Land Based IndustriesReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of Land-Based Industries.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in Land-Based Industries.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in Land-Based Industries.
Introduction to RetailReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the Retail sector.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Retail sector.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Retail sector.
Introduction to RetailReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the Retail sector.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Retail sector.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Retail sector.
Introduction to Travel and TourismReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the Travel and Tourism industry.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Travel and Tourism industry.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Travel and Tourism industry.
Introduction to the Hospitality IndustryReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure of the hospitality industry.
  • Know the career opportunities in the hospitality industry.
Introduction to the Information and Communication Technology SectorReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the Information and Communication Technology sector.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Information and Communication Technology sector.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Information and Communication Technology sector.
Introduction to the Information and Communication Technology sectorReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the structure and working patterns of the Information and Communication Technology sector.
  • Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Information and Communication Technology sector.
  • Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Information and Communication Technology sector.
Job Seeking SkillsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know about what is involved in job searching
  • Match personal skills and abilities with different jobs
  • Know about applying for a job
  • Know about interview skills and procedures
Making Choices In Pursuit Of Personal GoalsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how own personal attributes have affected current situation to date.
  • Know about information resources relevant to future opportunities.
  • Set personal goals.
  • Understand the practical implications of pursuing personal goals.
Making and Using Story Sacks for Family LearningReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the purpose and content of story sacks.
  • Produce a story sack and contents.
  • Use a story sack.
  • Encourage reading for meaning and comprehension.
  • Use prompt cards to develop litreacy skills.
  • Know about sequencing skills.
  • Use story sacks to identify language opportunities.
  • Evaluate the use of story sacks.
Managing Personal RelationshipsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of power in relationships
  • Understand the benefits and difficulties of giving and receiving support
  • Understand the key behaviours that contribute to good teamwork
  • Understand how conflicts can develop
  • Use listening skills in a conflict situation
  • Understand the concept of impartiality
Participating in Leisure ActivitiesReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know about local leisure activities
  • Participate in local leisure activities
  • Know about the benefits of participating in leisure activities
  • Know about Health and Safety issues related to leisure activities
Participating in Leisure ActivitiesReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify local activities.
  • Access local leisure activities.
  • Participate in a range of local leisure activities.
  • Recognise key benefits in participating in leisure activities.
  • Identify health and safety issues related to selected leisure activities.
Participating in a Vocational TasterReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand different job roles within a vocational area.
  • Use relevant skills, knowledge and personal qualities in a vocational context.
  • Understand the health and safety requirements relevant to the vocational context.
  • Reflect on suitability for job role in chosen vocational context.
Personal Budgeting And Managing MoneyReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand what is meant by income and expenditure.
  • Understand ways to deal with living on a limited.
  • Undertake financial transactions.
  • Understand key financial information on everyday documents.
  • Understand what saving means.
  • Produce a simple budget plan.
Personal Budgeting and Money ManagementReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand what is meant by income and expenditure including hire purchase and savings.
  • Record income and expenditure for a personal budget
  • Understand problems of coping on a limited budget.
  • Understand the advantages of effective shopping.
  • Complete cheques and money orders.
  • Check statements, receipts and pay slips.
  • Understand ‘interest’ on saving schemes.
  • Recognise personal requirements for budgeting and planning.
Personal DevelopmentReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Recognise own skills
  • Know about their role models
  • Make positive decisions
  • Identify personal goals
Personal DevelopmentReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify own strengths, weaknesses and skills
  • Acknowledge own current life situation and relationships
  • Make positive decisions
  • Set personal objectives
Personal Learning GoalsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify learning goals with reference to own skills, interests and other personal goals
  • Know about opportunities and practical issues involved in pursuing learning goals
  • Plan a programme to achieve learning goals
  • Know about the learning environment
  • Review progress as a learner
  • Review the plan to achieve personal goals
Personal Learning SkillsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know facts about the brain
  • Know how own learning takes place
  • Know about own learning profile
  • Make plans to use ‘learning to learn’ skills
Planning own fitness programmeReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the components of physical fitness
  • Assess own fitness level
  • Plan and use own fitness programme
  • Overcome barriers that may affect achievement of fitness goals
  • Review own fitness programme
Preparation for Work ExperienceReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the structure and purpose of the organisation.
  • Understand employers’/trainers’ expectations.
Preparing and Serving DrinksReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Prepare and serve different Drinks.
  • Work in a drinks service area.
Preparing for WorkReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify career or work options.
  • Complete applications for work or training.
  • Present self at an interview.
  • Plan for future work or training.
Presentation Software SkillsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Use information to create presentation slides
  • Use presentation software tools
  • Prepare slides for presentation
Punctuation and Grammar SkillsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Use punctuation to aid understanding.
  • Use grammar to aid understanding.
Reading Key Personal WordsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Read and understand key specialist words.
  • Complete a form.
Recognise Types and Parts of the Body of Small AnimalsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Recognise species and parts of the body, of small animals.
Recognising Employment OpportunitiesReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know about different forms of employment
  • Know about the labour market
Respecting ChildrenReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know why children need to be respected as individuals.
  • Know how adults show respect to children.
  • Recognise how the physical environment respects children as individuals.
Serving Food and DrinkReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Serve food and drink to customers.
  • Work as part of a food and drink service team.
Sex and Relationship EducationReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know about different types of relationship
  • Know about creating positive relationships
  • Know about legal issues relating to adult relationships
  • Know how the body works in relation to sexual activity
  • Know about methods of contraception
  • Know about sources of support relating to sexual health
Sowing and Growing PlantsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Use indoor sowing techniques (frame/greenhouse)
  • Use outdoor sowing techniques
  • Maintain and transplant seedling plants
  • Use specific plant growing processes
Spelling SkillsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Locate correct spellings.
  • Understand own spelling strengths and weaknesses.
  • Maintain a personal spelling programme.
Take Part in an ActivityReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan an activity
  • Participate in an activity
  • Understand how to review an activity
Taking Part in SportReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know about a sporting activity
  • Participate in a sporting activity
  • Review performance in a sporting activity
Teamwork SkillsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Contribute to the setting of team and individual goals
  • Know about own role responsibility within the team
  • Plan and undertake team activities
  • Review team activities
Teamwork SkillsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know about the task
  • Work with others towards achieving given objectives
  • Identify progress
  • Suggest ways of improving work with others to help achieve given objectives
Time ManagementReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know how time is spent
  • Know about time management skills
  • Use time management as a way of reducing stress
Understanding Diversity within SocietyReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand what is meant by 'Diversity in Society'.
  • Know about diverse social groups and their practices.
  • Identify similarities between diverse groups.
  • Understand the importance of respecting diversity in a tolerant society.
  • Recognise the contributions of diverse groups to society.
Understanding Equal OpportunitiesReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand discrimination with regard to ethnicity, gender, disability and sexuality.
  • Understand equal opportunities.
  • Understand ways of challenging discrimination.
  • Know about support agencies in his/her area.
Understanding The Importance Of A Balanced Diet And Regular ExerciseReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of a balanced diet to a healthy lifestyle.
  • Understand the importance of regular exercise to a healthy lifestyle.
Undertaking an Enterprise ProjectReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Select a product to sell to a particular target market
  • Select a suitable venue to sell the product
  • Advertise the sale
  • Set up a point of sale and sell products
  • Know about the costs involved in the enterprise project
  • Know about own involvement with enterprise project
Using Cooking Skills in the Domestic KitchenReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to plan and cost nutritionally balanced meals.
  • Use fresh ingredients and convenience foods.
  • Use and maintain a range of domestic kitchen equipment.
  • Use a variety of food preparation methods.
  • Understand the importance of health and safety in a domestic kitchen.
Using an Ordnance Survey MapReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know about the features of an Ordnance Survey map
  • Use the grid referencing system to find a location
  • Use an Ordnance Survey map for navigation
Valeting a Car InteriorReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify equipment and tools to valet a car interior.
  • Valet a car interior.
VolunteeringReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know about a range of volunteering opportunities
  • Know about the benefits of volunteering
  • Know that volunteers have rights and responsibilities
VolunteeringReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know what voluntary organisations are.
  • Understand the role of a volunteer in an organisation.
  • Identify current voluntary positions available.
  • Identify the steps/processes necessary to become a volunteer.
  • Understand how to apply for a voluntary position.
Washing a Car ExteriorReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Use appropriate tools and equipment
  • Wash the exterior of a car
Wax and Polish a Car ExteriorReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Use waxing and polishing equipment
  • Wax and polish car exterior
Young ParenthoodReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Know about the role of a young parent
  • Know about the limitations and opportunities that young parenthood presents
  • Make an action plan for being a young parent
Young ParenthoodReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of the young parent
  • Understand the limitations and opportunities that young parenthood presents
  • Make an action plan for being a young parent
Young People, Law and OrderReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand why young people become involved in crime.
  • Understand the consequences of crime on different people.
  • Know about the justice system for young offenders.
  • Know about custodial and alternative forms of sentences.
  • Know about the role of local agencies.

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Built for SEG Awards Certa Entry Level Extended Certificate in Skills for Further Learning and Employment (Entry 3)

83 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards.

  1. Basic Cooking
  2. Basic Food Preparation
  3. Bricklaying Tools, Equipment and Materials
  4. Building a Personal Career Portfolio
  5. Business Communication
  6. Career Planning

and 77 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

Why it sticks

Most courses stop at remembering

There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

The value

Why the companion is worth £70 a month

You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.

That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.

Earned on your own work, taught to the top.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.

Build my plan, free

No card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.