Future Australian teachers are struggling to pass a basic literacy tests before they graduate from university - and are paying for tutoring services to qualify. An increasing number of teachers have ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is executive director of East African civil society organisation Uwezo Uganda, and writes on behalf ...

The nature of knowledge is changing and, in this digital age, our definition of basic literacy urgently needs expanding. With an estimated 90% of UK jobs requiring some level of IT competency, the ...

It is often said that the biggest economic lever held by the Welsh Government in Cardiff Bay is the education system. Producing a highly-skilled and adaptable workforce is essential if our small ...

Responding to today's report into social mobility, the childrens' charity Barnado's has warned that basic literacy and numeracy are vital. Chief Executive Anne Marie Carrie said: "It is absolutely ...

Today the government launched its Help to Work scheme - which aims to assist long-term job seekers back to work. Labour responded by pointing out that part of the problem is that too many adults lack ...

Up to ten per cent of 5,000 trainee teachers flunked a recent basic skills test aimed to ensure that they have what it takes to educate Australian children. The pilot basic skills test, held for the ...

International Literacy Day is around the corner and now, more than ever, there is a need for education. According to Unesco, one in seven adults lacked basic literacy skills in 2022, while 250 million ...

Simply sign up to the Education myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Over the past three years, Florence Ravaonindrina has noticed a sharp improvement in basic maths skills among children ...

Rennie Naidoo, professor in Information Systems at the Wits School of Business Sciences. South Africa, like many of its peers in the Global South, is awash in digital optimism. Coding bootcamps for ...