June 15, 2006
Thursday
After nearly 90 years of compulsory primary education offered free by the state....
Despite all our progress, 5 million adults in Britain can not read and 15 million people, almost half the workforce, are not properly numerate.In the workplace, basic skills are a pretty fundamental requirement for success, as the IoD has argued; whilst, nationally, poor basic skills costs us £10 billion a year in lost productivity and welfare benefits.
From a speech by Alan Johnson, Education Secretary, yesterday
Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in Education
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Well, dear boy, that's because your 'improvements' are entirely statistical fabrications.
Standards are actually going down, not up.
Posted by: Paul at June 16, 2006 08:08 AM