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Help for people with low levels of literacy and maths skills must be more forthcoming for adult learning to have a bigger impact. guardian.co.uk featured article Read article

Nathan Cleverly has been confirmed as WBO light-heavyweight champion after beating Aleksy Kuziemski at the O2 arena this weekend. Continue reading →

World light-heavyweight contender Nathan Cleverly, who is also a maths graduate, is joining the fight to improve adult numeracy.

Nathan, 24 , who is in training for the world title at light heavyweight next month (April 2), has won a new title as a unionlearn* Maths Champion, supporting the TUC’s learning and skills organisation’s campaign to improve adult numeracy and help those who are not confident with numbers. Continue reading →

Building on our experience of running highly successful national Key Skills and Functional Skills and Skills for Life Support programmes, we are offering a series of new interactive hands on workshops in London. Continue reading →

In response to Ofsted’s report, Tackling the Challenge of Poor Numeracy Skills – why some teaching adds up while other provision falls short, Tom Wilson, director of unionlearn*, the TUC’s learning and skills organisation said: Continue reading →

The workplace is an ideal place for adults to learn and to encourage learning. ‘Making staff count’ outlines the benefits of addressing numeracy and shows how some local authorities have created opportunities for numeracy learning. Supporting and developing numeracy can help improve staff performance, leading to better services and more efficient ways of working. We hope that senior managers, HR managers and elected members will use this booklet to focus on the workplace as a site for numeracy learning.
An interactive e-book edition is also available: http://content.yudu.com/A1qx92/Making-staff-count/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl Download Making staff count [PDF]

This report makes it clear that having a successful approach to numeracy is of fundamental importance to this country and sets out a package of recommendations which we believe would have a major positive impact, and we hope that government, funders, infrastructure bodies and providers will respond positively to it.

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