- 16-24 year olds have the least confidence in their numeracy abilities - UK workers twice as likely as Polish workers to feel they need better numeracy skills in their current role UK employees are ...

Poor numeracy skills have real financial consequences. If the City is to remain a financial powerhouse, we must address the nation’s deteriorating maths, writes Andy Haldane on National Numeracy Day ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What do the Beano, Test cricket and the online video game Fortnite have in common? The answer is that they ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak’s national drive to improve UK maths skills needs to offer extra support to boost the confidence of ...

False. Literacy is currently about 99%. In the past, it has been as low as about 5%. Adult and child literacy appear to have either stayed stable or improved over recent decades. What was claimed The ...

Scotland’s national literacy and numeracy statistics are based on something called Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence Levels (ACEL) data, which probably sounds a bit more vague and unhelpful ...

NEW Education Secretary John Swinney has acknowledged he has much to do to improve schooling amid new figures showing the proportion of primary pupils with a good grasp of numbers has fallen again. Mr ...

16:28, Mon, Jul 1, 2024 Updated: 16:55, Mon, Jul 1, 2024 The claims around tax and spending during the UK’s general election have at least clarified and confirmed one thing: many in Westminster ...