UK report: Poor literacy skills cost businesses £10bn a year

A third of all British businesses are forced to send staff for remedial lessons in basic literacy and numeracy because schools have failed to teach them to read, write or add up properly, business leaders warned yesterday. Poor standards are costing the economy £10bn a year, and could see jobs lost to China and India if skill levels among workers do not improve, according to a government-commissioned report. Get details in The Independent.