UK News 15-12-2004 who: Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) what: Says four out of five adults need help with basic literacy and numeracy when: Yesterday snippet: "The number of adults without adequate literacy and numeracy skills is growing by 100,000 a year," says The Telegraph. And The Daily Mail says "as many as one in three children are leaving thousands of primary schools at 11 unable to read properly because of poor teaching". In other statistical reports, The Times says teenage girls are now bigger binge drinkers than boys following a survey which asked 15 year-olds if they had consumed five or more drinks in a row in the last 30 days. [... more]

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