Almost one in four trainee teachers cannot do simple sums and a fifth have problems with spelling, grammar and punctuation, worrying figures revealed yesterday. Thousands repeatedly flunk basic ...

Future Australian teachers are struggling to pass a basic literacy tests before they graduate from university - and are paying for tutoring services to qualify. An increasing number of teachers have ...

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Thousands of trainee teachers had to re-sit basic literacy and numeracy tests last year, it has emerged – with one candidate taking a literacy paper 36 times. The startling figures, revealed in the ...

Students will not be allowed to enter teacher training in England if they fail basic numeracy and literacy tests three times, under tougher rules to raise teaching standards. At present students are ...

A total of 38,572 non-literate persons aged 15 years and above will take up the basic literacy test under the New India Literacy Programme to be held at 1,521 centres across the district here on ...

One of the most selective independent schools has admitted that one in eight of its pupils starting A-levels failed a basic literacy test. Harrow School in north-west London, which charges £23,625 a ...

Cabbies have accused council bosses of “bottling it” after they failed to introduce a basic English test for new drivers. The proposal to introduce a basic literacy test for Durham cabbies received ...

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