Towards A Universal Framework For Essential Skills A Review Of The Skills Builder Framework Tom Ravenscroft by Tom Ravenscroft, Laura Baker instant download after payment.

Essential skills are a key component of employability. The importance of developing a set of essential skills for individuals to thrive in education, employment and entrepreneurship has been long documented. These are the skills which ‘almost everyone needs to do almost any job. They are the skills that make specific knowledge and technical skills fully productive’.
Too often this is an area where terminology is confused and confusing. From the outset, it is
important to differentiate between:
Knowledge: content which can be recalled, understood and explained
Character attributes: the choices individuals make, manifested as attitudes or behaviours
Skills: the ability to successfully enact a repeatable process
Whilst all three are critical to employability, our focus here is on the element of skills, within which we define three broad types of skills:  
 
Technical Skills: those skills which are specific to a particular sector or role, sometimes drawing off a particular body of knowledge. These skills are not easily transferred beyond the sector or role to which they relate.  
Essential Skills: those highly transferable skills that everyone needs to do almost any job, which support the application of specialist knowledge and technical skills
Basic Skills: these are literacy and numeracy, and basic digital skills.
The challenge of this report therefore is to identify those skills which can be classed as essential skills.