Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after this Registration Statement becomes effective.

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The registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 (this “Amendment”) relates to the following Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the “Registration Statement”), filed by Skillsoft Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission:

As of the date hereof, the Company has terminated all offerings of securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with the undertakings made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of such offering, the Company hereby removes from registration by means of this Amendment, all of such securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Greenwood, Colorado, on December 21, 2022. No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act.