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On 17/02/2013 00:56, Christina Websell wrote:
"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message ll.co.uk... On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:15:44 -0000, Janet wrote: English city where the average reading age is 7. Where would that be? With a reference please Somewhere near the 7 bridge? Under it, more like. I've never heard of an adult population having their reading ages tested/recorded. Some one "clever" probably did a survey of 50 adults on a council sink estate and extrapolated the results to cover the whole city. Having said that a google produces many hits which state the UK average reading age is around 8 or 9. What? Not for my family. Perhaps you are having difficulty with reading and understanding mathematical concepts. UK average implies a national average. Some will be higher some lower. By being higher you cannot drag the lowest or the average up to your level. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jan/24/books.politics "Up to 16 million adults - nearly half the workforce - are holding down jobs despite having the reading and writing skills expected of children leaving primary school, a new report reveals today. MPs on the Commons Public Accounts Committee claim that a major government scheme costing billions of pounds has done little to improve the quality of adult literacy and numeracy teaching. The Department for Education is on course to have spent almost £6bn on its Skills for Life scheme by 2010, but its first few years have produced little evidence of improvement in provision in colleges or on-the-job training by employers." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3641634.stm (from 2004) "A scientist at Bath University looked at pages about diabetes on 15 internet health sites run mainly by charities and official bodies. He found people would need a reading ability of an educated 11 to 17-year-old to understand the sites. However, he said the average reading age of people in the UK was equivalent to an educated nine-year-old." -- Phil Cook |
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"Phil Cook" wrote in message ... On 17/02/2013 00:56, Christina Websell wrote: "Dave Liquorice" wrote in message ll.co.uk... On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:15:44 -0000, Janet wrote: English city where the average reading age is 7. Where would that be? With a reference please Somewhere near the 7 bridge? Under it, more like. I've never heard of an adult population having their reading ages tested/recorded. Some one "clever" probably did a survey of 50 adults on a council sink estate and extrapolated the results to cover the whole city. Having said that a google produces many hits which state the UK average reading age is around 8 or 9. What? Not for my family. Perhaps you are having difficulty with reading and understanding mathematical concepts. UK average implies a national average. Some will be higher some lower. By being higher you cannot drag the lowest or the average up to your level. improve the quality of adult literacy and numeracy teaching. Maybe we were just lucky to be intelligent or maybe our parents made us go to school and NOT let us duck out. |
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On 17/02/2013 02:31, Christina Websell wrote:
"Phil Cook" wrote in message ... On 17/02/2013 00:56, Christina Websell wrote: "Dave Liquorice" wrote in message ll.co.uk... Having said that a google produces many hits which state the UK average reading age is around 8 or 9. What? Not for my family. By being higher you cannot drag the lowest or the average up to your level. Maybe we were just lucky to be intelligent or maybe our parents made us go to school and NOT let us duck out. Yes, it used to be a constant source of amazement to me how dim some folk are. Once I left the ivory towers of academia I faffed and wasted and now work at a post some way below my education. I suppose after 20 years I am now used to it, that and the fact that some folk seem to have no work ethic whatsoever. -- Phil Cook |
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"Phil Cook" wrote in message ... On 17/02/2013 02:31, Christina Websell wrote: "Phil Cook" wrote in message ... On 17/02/2013 00:56, Christina Websell wrote: "Dave Liquorice" wrote in message ll.co.uk... Having said that a google produces many hits which state the UK average reading age is around 8 or 9. What? Not for my family. By being higher you cannot drag the lowest or the average up to your level. Maybe we were just lucky to be intelligent or maybe our parents made us go to school and NOT let us duck out. Yes, it used to be a constant source of amazement to me how dim some folk are. Once I left the ivory towers of academia I faffed and wasted and now work at a post some way below my education. I suppose after 20 years I am now used to it, that and the fact that some folk seem to have no work ethic whatsoever. -- Phil Cook My eldest nephew is now studying Physics at Bath, I hope he doesn't waste the opportunity. |
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