The Guardian: 12 million workers have reading age of children
Up to 16 million adults - nearly half the workforce - are holding down jobs despite having the reading and writing skills expected of children leaving primary school, a new report reveals today.
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The report highlights poor quality of provision and teaching as a major reason for lack of progress. “The quality of provision for adults is still too low. An extensive review of quality and standards by Ofsted and the Adult Learning Inspectorate found widespread weaknesses. People in the greatest need were getting the worst provision, and even in colleges, provision of literacy, language and numeracy was poorer than the provision for other areas of learning. In the first three years of the strategy, inspections have shown little evidence of improvement.”
Source: The Guardian
