John Lewis boss says young staff lack basic numeracy skills
Chairwoman Dame Sharon White says that new recruits’ literacy and numeracy are weak. …
“To have done 10 years, 11, 12 years of education, and not having, in many cases, functional literacy, certainly, pretty typically not having functional numeracy beyond the age of, I’d say, 10, 11, means that they may then have fabulous people skills and fabulous skills in terms of operating in a team but that’s almost outwith the education system,” Dame Sharon told the Commission.
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