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We have noticed that students in Geography at the College of St Mark and St John are not easily ‘transferring’ their communication skills developed in year one into year two. Shepherd (2000) claims that skill transfer is the outcome of a complex set of interactions and successful transfer relates to a range of factors from which he produces an informal model. This research adopts this idea and addresses transfer, not from just one context to another but also, from one year to another. It focused on a cohort of year one Geography students taking a module, which emphasised the importance of skills in general, and communication skills in particular. They were then tracked into their second year. Our overall aim was to determine whether the assumption we had made that skills transfer happens between years is substantiated. A questionnaire was used to collect quantitative and qualitative data based on the following research questions:Which communication skills do students ‘perceive’ that they have developed in year one?Have they been able to use communication skills developed in year one in their second year?Have they developed these skills further? The results showed that our students are not finding it easy to transfer their knowledge about communication skills between years but there is some evidence of improvement in skill acquisition; however, we need further research to investigate this. Finally, we return to Shepherd’s (2000) informal model to identify the areas where we could make some improvement in the courses.