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Attacks on funding for adult education must be reversed to save Britain from a skills shortage, warns UCU
Attacks on funding for adult education must be reversed to save Britain from a skills shortage, lecturers' union UCU warned yesterday.
More 16 to 24-year-olds lack basic skills compared to other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
England came 22nd for literacy and 21st for numeracy in an OECD study of 24 of its members. Northern Ireland fared only slightly better.
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