FAQs - Essential Digital Skills

The Essential Digital Skills (EDS) design principles do not require full coverage of the Skills Statements associated with each Skill Area at the level of the qualification.

Having considered the EDS National Standards Open Awards concluded that all the Skills Statements associated with each qualification level are relevant to the purpose. Therefore, each qualification will cover all the Skills Statements corresponding to the level of the respective qualification.

Further information can be found in the relevant Qualification Guide for each qualification.

Each Essential Digital Skills (EDS) qualification has been developed and designed so that 50 hours of Guided Learning (GLH) will be required. On the basis that the majority of the learning and preparation will be completed by the learner under the direction of a provider, each qualification is assigned a total of 60 hours of Total Qualification Time (TQT).