Graduates ‘lack basic maths and literacy skills’
Excerpt: Tens of thousands of students are graduating from British universities without basic maths or literacy skills, a global figure in education suggested yesterday. England has almost the highest proportion of graduates in school-leaver jobs of any developed country, and many are in those jobs because they lack basic numeracy and literacy, according to the education director of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which published its annual education report. (JBP: Why should universities teach literacy and math skills, anyway? The idea that such abilities are valuable is an arbitrary, socially-constructed presumption, designed to bolster the power claims of the current elite. Did I get it right, postmodernists?)
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