Level of Literacy in UK, France and Other Countries

In the UK, according to the Daily Telegraph (June 14, 2006) "one in six British adults have the lacks of literacy skills at age 11. The Ministry of Education of the British government in 2006 reported that 47% of school-age children leave school at 16 without having achieved a basic level in functional mathematics, and 42% does not exceed a basic level of functional English . Each year 100,000 students leave the school

And causing the increase of functional illiterates in the United Kingdom.

In France, according to studies of the 'Institute National de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE) published A report in 2005, the rate of illiterates has fallen, and is greater for the population 60-65 years (34%) than among young people of 18-29 years (14%). Overall, one can speak of functional illiteracy for 9% of the French population.

The project ALL (Adult Literacy and Lifeskills - Literacy and skills for life) as part of an international comparative research promoted by 'OECD, allowed an investigation that also take the pulse of the Italian situation, research carried out in 2003 - 2004 on a sample of the population between 16 and 65 years reported  not brilliant: the first level is at 46.1%, 35.1% is the second level and only 18.8% is at a level highest competence.

The literacy rate and literacy rate is a statistical quantity that the proportion of a

population indicates the write and can read. The opposite is the illiteracy rate. It is an indicator of the level of education of a population group. The literacy rate shows the efforts of a government, the educational attainment of the population to a certain level to

lift and flow measurement systems are often used to describe the level of development of a country in, for example, in the Human Development Index (HDI) of the United Nations. Within a society, the literacy rate among the different population groups differ reatly. Possible causes for this include:

Immigrant

Social class

Discrimination of certain groups (such as the exclusion of women from the educational

system as it form under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has been practiced in extreme)

Reference:

1. Institute National de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE) published
2. Daily Telegraph (June 14, 2006)