Improving skills, creating potential

Ufi Fast Facts at May 2009

  • More than 2.65 million learners have taken a learndirect course.
     
  • 650 learndirect centres are located in local communities across England and Wales.
     
  • 620 different learndirect courses are available in subjects as diverse as literacy and numeracy, specialist ICT and business and management.
     
  • 74 per cent of learndirect learners are qualified below level two or are assessed as having a basic skills need.
     
  • Over 254,000 people have achieved their first Skills for Life (literacy or numeracy) test pass through learndirect.
     
  • Altogether, more than 357,000 online tests in literacy and numeracy have been taken with learndirect.