Cara, O;
Litster, JH;
(2008)
Teacher attitudes towards the 'skills for life' national strategy for improving adult literacy and numeracy skills.
In: Reder, Stephen and Bynner, John, (eds.)
Tracking Adult Literacy and Numeracy Skills: Findings from Longitudinal Research.
(pp. 177-199).
Routledge: New York, NY, USA.
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Abstract
In 1996 Tony Blair, MP, leader of the opposition Labour Party, declared that his three priorities for government would be “education, education, and education.”1 Early in its fi rst administration (1997-2001), the new Labour government instructed a working group under the chairmanship of Sir Claus Moser to investigate the state of adult basic skills in the United Kingdom and to suggest ways of reaching adults with literacy and numeracy needs. Lord Moser’s A Fresh Start: Improving Literacy and Numeracy (1999) concluded that up to seven million adults (one in fi ve of the adult population) in England had diffi culties with literacy and numeracy-a higher proportion than in any other Western country apart from Poland and Ireland.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Teacher attitudes towards the 'skills for life' national strategy for improving adult literacy and numeracy skills |
| ISBN: | 020388888X |
| ISBN-13: | 9780203888889 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9780203888889 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203888889 |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1523255 |
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