Remedial classes need more funds

For quite some time there has been considerable concern about the low literacy levels in this country and it is perplexing that there are still half a million people with serious difficulty in this regard.

In a country that boasts about the quality of its educational standards and whose attraction for foreign investors is predicated upon that record, it is inconceivable that proficiency in literacy should pose a problem for such a large part of the population.

It means, effectively, that one quarter of the adult population has gone through the education system and emerged with a sub-standard level of reading and writing.