“Of employers who rate the competency of their low-skilled staff as poor or satisfactory, over half report problems with literacy” “There are too many adults who lack basic literacy skills. In 2006 a Government sponsored review into basic skills, the Leitch Review, found that more than five million adults lack functional literacy, the level needed […]
Numeracy Literacy Research “17 million adults are working at ‘Entry Levels’ – roughly equivalent to the standard expected by the end of primary school. The equivalent figure for literacy is 5 million adults.” Employers Recent surveys show widespread concern amongst employers about their employees’ basic skills. The CBI’s 2008 audit surveyed 735 firms employing 1.7 […]
A major study by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) shows how Englan’ds 16 to 24 year olds are falling behind the rest of the world. England came 22nd for literacy and 21st for numeracy out of 24 countries. The OECD’s Andreas Schleicher warned of a shrinking pool of skilled workers. […]
Employers throughout the UK are to be asked to take part in a major new project to improve numeracy skills in the workplace. The National Numeracy Challenge aims to reach a million adults over a five-year period, concentrating initially on those at work, but with plans to expand into areas beyond the workplace and so […]
A new report from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) called, ‘Technology and Skills in the Digital Industries’ reveals that despite IT specialists powering the UK economy, lack of skills is hampering economic growth. Below are exerts from an article found here, on Default News. “The digital sector will require nearly 300,000 new […]
You may have read in the papers this month about the findings of a government led research initiative into the basic skills of the adult workforce. The Skills for Life survey, which surveyed 16 to 65-year-olds across England, found that in some parts of the UK as many as a quarter of adults have the numeracy […]
Michael Gove’s proposed reforms of the maths curriculum put too much emphasis on “rote learning” and not enough on using maths in real-life contexts, according to a campaign group set up to improve numeracy. The proposed new curriculum contains “serious flaws” that will undermine attempts to raise standards, according to the charity National Numeracy. In […]
