Friday 9 July 2010

Budget cuts sidestepping basic and functional skills?

The last few days has seen lots of stories about budget cuts. As you'd expect, I read every one but so far, none of the cuts have directly been focussed on literacy, numeracy, basic skills and functional skills which i think is a very good thing!
I do believe that the Coalition Government is focussing on getting the basics right, and indeed the new emphasis on phonics to teach reading and writing at primary school is evidence of that.
Clearly, budget cuts in other areas will have a trickle down effect so I'm certainly not being complacent.
Jonathan Wells - Guroo Functional Skills
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