Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Skills crisis: Tragic skills mismatch shuts rising generation out of jobs - New Zealand Herald



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URL: Skills crisis: Tragic skills mismatch shuts rising generation out of jobs
New Zealand Herald
In a 2006 survey, 14 per cent of our adults could not read a simple document such as a map or a timetable and 20 per cent could not carry out a one-step calculation. Up to about 1970, people with such low skills could still walk out of school into ...