Sir Mike Rake, Chairman, UK Commission for Employment & Skills“The Doomsday scenario is we could find ourselves by 2020 with six million people unemployable in the UK. I don’t have to tell you what the social and economic implications would be.”
In the last two years, Quick Reads have firmly established themselves as the perfect books for people who have lost the reading habit or who struggle to read long and complicated books. Above all, they have proved that reading can be fun.
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2008 is the National Year of Reading and is designed to be a celebration of words in every form.
Six new Skills for Life publications covering a general guide to skills for life, reading and writing, numeracy, ESOL, dyslexia, speaking and listening.
Can't Read Can't Write is a shocking and moving Channel 4 series, which reveals the hidden realities of Britain's adult literacy crisis. Nine illiterate adults enrol for a six-month reading course which they hope will change their lives. Each has
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Following the government reshuffle, there have been a number of ministerial changes within DIUS.
…A common genetic variant may be partly to blame for poor reading ability, research suggests.
…Only a month ago the country was celebrating the success of Team GB in Beijing, but now another UK…
Business leaders have criticised the quality of university graduates, complaining they lack basic…