As many as 16,984 illiterate people aged above 15 years have been identified by the directorate of non-formal and adult education in Madurai to learn basic alphabetical and numerical skills under the ...

The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Christian International High School, Prof Emeritus Stephen Adei says teachers do not have a right to demand for study material to aid them in adequately preparing ...

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When my father taught adult numeracy in Birmingham in the 1980s he would ask each new class what they hoped to learn. On one occasion, a woman who worked as a lunchtime supervisor said she wanted to ...

SENATORIAL candidate and Makati City mayor Abby Binay has zeroed-in on strengthening early childhood education as a crucial step in improving the country’s quality of education. For the mayor, the ...

That is according to Dame Sharon White, who has claimed young staff hired did not have "functional literacy" skills. Dame Sharon further said less academically-inclined kids were not always reaching ...

There are calls for low-performing teaching students to be weeded out of degrees earlier, with the fail rate of the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) almost doubling ...

Nationally, the percentage of students falling below acceptable literacy and numeracy standards rises between year 3 and year 9. In addition to the Northern Territory – where the failures of the ...

Gremlins in white boiler-suits harassed Britons in the early 2000s, springing from cupboards, drawers and sofas whenever people were asked to read or add up. The critters were the stars of government ...

Tamil Nadu has the highest number of students lacking basic numeracy skills. Tamil Nadu has the highest number of students lacking basic numeracy skills followed by Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, and ...

Do you think you have what it takes to master this tricky numeracy challenge? A quiz created by US-based trivia platform Quizly is inspired by the maths lessons children aged 13 receive in school. For ...