The situation of functional illiteracy

Formally, the availability of education for children has increased around the world over the last decades. However, despite having a successful formal education career, adults can become functional illiterates. Functional illiteracy means that a person cannot use reading, writing, and calculation skills for his/her own and the community’s development. Functional Read more

Statistical information relating to functional literacy in Turkey is limited. The relevant data is directly linked with basic literacy skills. In the 10-year period covering the years 2009-2018, the illiterate population in the age group 15 and up declined from 9.2 percent to 3.6 percent. This ratio decreased from 3.6 Read more

Functional illiteracy is one of the most widespread and worrying phenomena in recent years. Many adults are functional illiterates because they have difficulty in fully understanding simple texts, with negative effects that are reflected in everyday life. To counter the phenomenon we must invest in two main directions: family and Read more

Defining and placing basic skills in professional literature is not unique. There are numerous definitions and also very different descriptions. The basis for the European definition in the national education and labour market policies are the results of the DeSeCo study (1999 – 2002) in the definition in international adult Read more

There are still 730,000 illiterate people in Spain, of whom 67 percent are women, according to 2011 figures from the National Statistics Institute. They survive by asking questions of everyone around them, trusting they will be told the truth. They ask about the type of milk they are buying, the Read more