Literacy and numeracy levels - Strategy clearly doesn’t add up

HERE in Ireland, we tend to take the ability to read and write for granted. After all, we have produced some of the world’s finest writers and we have a long tradition of literacy.

But such complacency is misplaced as one in 10 children leave Irish primary schools with serious literacy difficulties.

In disadvantaged schools, this figure rises to one in three, according to Suas, the education development charity that works with schools to boost literacy rates.