Current coalition Government policies designed to improve adults’ literacy and numeracy skills are overly focused on the world of work rather than family and community life, according to Professor John Bynner and Dr Sam Parsons from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, the Institute of Education at the University of London.
The researchers, who spent 18 years investigating adult literacy and numeracy with the aid of data gathered by two of Britain’s major birth cohort studies, found that the vocabulary scores of three-year-olds whose parents had low levels of basic skills were 20 per cent below those with parents educated to GCSE A* to C level.
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