Civitas

There is almost no-one, I suspect, who is both sane and knowledgeable, who would deny IN PRIVATE the decline you describe.

Agree with Dearieme. One little point about the adult basic skills gap (I know an excessive amount about Government skills policy because of my day-job): To be fair to them, the Government are doing a helluvalot to cut down the number of illiterates and innumerates, but there are significant problems. Two examples:

First, you have to get people to 'fess up to their problems. This is very difficult - it can be embarassing, and people have often developed their own modus operandi to sidestep the problem.

Second, and similar to other 'public services', public funds have driven demand hard against a limited supply of basic skills tutors - it's become a fairly well-heeled profession, along the way probably reducing financial efficiency.

Thanks for signing in . Now you can comment. (sign out)

(Because we are bombarded by huge amounts of spam, if you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site moderator before your comment will appear. Thank you very much for waiting.)

URL:
Remember me? YesNo

Comments: