OECD Literacy and Numeracy

Recently the OECD also  surveyed  24 countries which revealed  some sobering results for some countries. The recent audit tested the literacy,numeracy and problem solving skills of more than 160,000 people aged 16 - 65 across the 24 countries in the OECD.Although these  countries are all deemed wealthy, recession hit countries England,Northern Ireland,Italy and Spain  performed poorly. Australia actually outperformed the UK and The United States,coming 5th in literacy and 13th in numeracy.Not surprisingly, Japan was on top, followed closely by Finland. The UK results do  make for poor reading with 16-24 year olds' literacy scores lower than UK adults aged 16-65. Also UK graduates were only performing at the same level as Japanese school leavers. Ouch!Read this article  from the Guardian for more information about how the 24 countries fared.