JOBSEEKERS will have to pass a basic skills test and could lose their unemployment benefits, under tough new measures being pledged by Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary today. In her first ...

A skills test to weed out student teachers who can't multiply two numbers or read a simple graph is failing to stop them graduating as universities side step the system. The Literacy and Numeracy Test ...

The bill would end the Praxis core test requirement just months after a new law created a pathway letting teachers eschew the basic skills test. (Courtesy of the New Jersey Governor's Office) A bill ...

TEACHERS could undergo basic literacy and numeracy assessments before being allowed on to an education university course, according to a new report. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

A New Jersey law that went into effect Jan. 1 to address an ongoing teacher shortage by eliminating certain testing required of aspiring teachers has created a social media frenzy of confusion amid ...

The Education Secretary, Charles Clarke, has said the government will have failed if adult literacy does not improve "massively" within five years. He said the way seven million British adults ...