Sentence examples for numeracy it from inspiring English sources

Among those set to lose their jobs were literacy, numeracy, IT, arts and music teachers, Long said, as well as senior education officer roles, which he said were similar to the position of a school principal.

It can mean "optional", but in the National Primary Strategy, a set of "guidelines" on teaching literacy and numeracy, it means "obligatory"—unless a school wants to risk being deemed "satisfactory".Gifted and talented refer to the top 5-10% in academic and non-academic pursuits respectively, who are to be encouraged in their gifts and talents.

"Some of the kids leaving school have got more than my level of IT skills and in my view most of them have the basics in literacy and numeracy – it's the application of that to the work place that's missing".

"Some employers and universities consider that grade C, or even above, does not guarantee sufficient literacy or numeracy," it says.

Minimum thresholds could be set so young people "matriculate" with a balanced mix of subjects, literacy and numeracy, it says.

In addition to usual curricular activities, such as literacy and numeracy, it also offered "speech rehabilitation, hearing aid maintenance and ear mould production".

And suddenly, as I walk through Barnsley on my way from a slice of good news – the opening of a new Playing for Success centre where young people can be excited by literacy and numeracy and IT in a sporting context – it feels like we might be scuttling back to the 1980s.

"Gove and [Nick] Gibb talk about embedding ICT across the curriculum," she says, "but when you look at the new literacy and numeracy framework, it seems to be going backwards; just a couple of mentions [of ICT] but not giving it a fundamental role".