A FAIRLY new term, functional literacy, is now used to determine the state of literacy in the country. On April 4, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released the results of its 2024 Functional ...

Minorities in Bangladesh have outperformed the majority Muslims in functional literacy despite socio-economic challenges. Whether in rural or urban areas, minorities were found more functionally ...

BrainRx Philippines Co-founder and Director of Training Mel L. Sua speaks at a media event. — ALMIRA S. MARTINEZ An education expert said cognitive training that strengthens core learning skills can ...

Australians spend more money per capita on education than most comparable nations. We should have high levels of literacy – but we don’t. NAPLAN results indicate one in three primary and secondary ...

A 29-year-old African-American woman with three days of abdominal pain and fever was brought to a Baltimore emergency department by her family. After a brief evaluation she was told that she would ...

Nearly half of Australian adults are functionally illiterate, with manufacturing workers having some of the country’s lowest literacy levels, a significant issue as the industry continues to shed jobs ...

The Department of Education (DepEd) has recently appealed for additional funding to address the country’s growing problem of functional illiteracy. The call sounds legitimate at first glance. After ...

BASAbali was awarded the 2019 UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy for its BASAbali Wiki programme, including a multimedia, multilingual (Balinese, Indonesian and English) wiki dictionary, encyclopedia ...

(HealthDay)—For patients undergoing day surgery, inadequate functional health literacy (FHL) is associated with poorer postoperative recovery and lower health-related quality of life, according to a ...