America

I'm in Washington DC this week, with the sole purpose of investigating the US market.

Now I know that something called Common Core State Standards are being introduced which cover Math(s) and English and when I look at these, you know they are not that different from Functional Skills.

And in talking to people in the states, many of the problems are similar. Employability skills, issues over standards of literacy and numeracy, not enough focus on problem solving.

Perhaps the UK as actually managed to catch up a little by introducing Functional Skills - although we know from previous reports, tat other countries are still well ahead in embedding.

Still, an interesting trip so far - very pleased I came.