What are Key Skills?
According to the Department for Education and Skills (DfES):
"Key skills are a range of essential skills that underpin success in education, employment, lifelong learning and personal development...The genesis for Key Skills as we now know them was concern from employers in the 1980s that their young recruits did not have the general skills needed in effective employees.
The skills identified deliberately went beyond basic literacy and numeracy. Their focus was the ability to use skills in a wide range of contexts and to make judgments about what skills to use and when.
The 1996 Dearing Review of post-16 Education recommended that key skills should be available across both work-based and academic routes.".
We can examine the above sociologically - although if you're just here for a bit of info on Key Skills I wouldn't bother...