Investing in Staff i-Skills

Information skills’ is a term that has been used increasingly in further and higher education (FE & HE) in the last five years. There is a wealth of literature that exists on this subject. A cursory glance at this shows that information skills is a concept which has many definitions, almost all of which tend to be context specific. Information skills can also be described as information literacy or variations such as information fluency, knowledge literacy, or knowledge management. When describing information skills, there exists a tendency to conflate it with ICT skills and whilst ICT skills do play a part they are not the whole picture. There is also a tendency to regard their development as only applicable to learners. Again, this is a misconception. They are, in fact, skills that can be applied to all areas of modern life, including the workplace. As a result of the potential confusion over what these terms mean and how they apply to the workplace a new term has been introduced, i-skills