About 8 million working age adults have 'below-functional' numeracy skills and about 5 million have 'below-functional' literacy skills in England. England and Northern Ireland score particularly badly ...

MARAWI CITY (PIA)–Literacy is a powerful tool against poverty. One of the objectives of the Childhood Rescue Project is to assist its partners in developing and contextualizing tools that can identify ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Twenty-nine percent of American adults performed at the lowest level for numeracy on a major international study, according to a new report released today by the National ...

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Foundational learning, the ability to read, write, and do basic math, is the bedrock of every child's education. This is not ...

Literacy and numeracy are under the spotlight as Aotearoa New Zealand grapples with how to improve student performance in these basic skills. At the beginning of 2023, the government rolled out its ...

A Librarian at the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Dr Theresa Adu, has called for the need to strengthen the literacy and numeracy skills of children in their formative years. She ...

An analysis of national literacy and numeracy tests has found that four out of every 10 Aboriginal students sitting the tests are failing them. The free market Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), ...

Almost half of Australian adults don’t have the literacy skills they need for everyday life, and in very remote communities, only 36 per cent of First Nations students meet minimum literacy standards.

One in five Australians, or three-million adults, have low literacy or numeracy skills, and it can have a big impact on how ...