'Employers want employees who are able to cope with the fast changing demands of the workplace..' - Institute for Employment Studies, 2004.
Welcome to Clare Workplace Basic Education
The workplace is a natural and essential venue to offer opportunities for improving workplace basic skills.
Increasing global competition is driving demand for upskilling in all jobs. Critically, those in the workforce need to continually update and enhance their basic skills which provide the foundation for learning all other skills.
Workplace basic skills refer to the skills and competences needed to function effectively, efficiently and safely in the workplace. The ability to read, understand, write, calculate, communicate effectively, critically think in particular problem solve, adapt to change and work as part of an effective team are essential basic skills. The introduction of new and advanced technologies in the workplace directly affects the skills required and increases the skill sets needed to use and operate within this new technological workplace.
Whatever industry you’re in and whatever work you do, keeping your basic skills up to date will help you do things better – our service can help you with this.
Did you know?
In Ireland nearly 30% of the workforce has Junior Cert or less, while 10% has primary or no formal qualifications at all. Significantly, 25% of adults lack very basic skills and one in five of the workforce have literacy skills below the level needed in today’s workplace. The National Skills Strategy has highlighted that these statistics could have a detrimental effect on Irelands plans to remain economically competitive. (IALS)
The cost to business of low basic skills is estimated at €9.8M/yr in the UK. (Gallup)
As part of the Government’s strategy to improve the basic skills of the 500,000 of the working population in Ireland who have basic skills difficulties, tailored training opportunities are provided to help employees deal with the increasing basic skills demands of the modern workplace.
We provide the following programmes:
