A bookish adolescent who ended school at year 9 but grew up in a home with large library is likely to be just as literate as a university graduate whose home lacked books. That’s according to a new study that ...

It is very difficult to dispute the need for teachers to possess sounds literacy skills. Communication and literacy are central to teaching success and personal literacy competency is an obvious prerequisite for much of a teacher’s work. Not only do ...

Most university students simply need to pass all their subjects to graduate. Teaching students, however, have to score in the top 30 per cent of the adult population in literacy and numeracy, in addition to passing their regular exams, to earn their ...

By Darragh O Keeffe Researchers at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia have found that a multi-million dollar Government plan to improve literacy and numeracy has not reached students most in need. The research found that the use of reward payments ...