đź“° Adult Literacy News Summary
Brits say writing standards have declined with the digital era whilst reading opportunities have risen
05-Sep-2025 - UK
Almost half of Brits (44 percent) believe that their writing standards have declined with technology but that their overall literacy and reading has been positively influenced, says new research. 53 percent of people said that the digital era has had a positive impact on literacy levels overall according to the research by Readly digital magazine and newspaper app.
Read moreCan you read this? US low-literacy crisis is costing us $2 trillion per year
04-Sep-2025 - USA
In 2024, the U.S. Senate designated September as National Literacy Month with a resolution celebrating reading as a “cornerstone for personal growth, economic opportunity, and a strong society.” It documented low reading proficiency among both children and adults and acknowledged some of the major causes and consequences of low literacy.
Read moreRead Easy is helping adults in Bolton to learn to read
02-Sep-2025 - UK
There are around 20,000 adults across Bolton who either cannot read these words properly or cannot read them at all. They cannot use social media, fill in a form for work, enjoy a book or help their own children to read and they regularly miss out on important letters and communications. They may develop all kinds of ways to “hide” their problem and use excuses like “I’ve forgotten my reading glasses” to get others to read important information for them. Now, the newly-formed Bolton group of national organisation Read Easy is trying to redress this imbalance – one potential reader at a time.
Read moreReading charity appealing for volunteers
01-Sep-2025 - UK
The charity Read Easy is looking for more volunteers to take one-to-one sessions with people in Kettering and Corby. The organisation says 2.4 million people in the UK are unable to read. Janet Batson, one of the current volunteers, said she was very proud of the progress her latest student had made.
Read moreQueen Camilla’s Reading Room teams up with domestic violence survivors’ charity
30-Aug-2025 - UK
The partnership hopes to use books to support the healing process. For many of us reading is an escape – look into another world, taking us out of our own. That is why Queen Camilla’s Reading Room is teaming up with a charity supporting domestic abuse survivors, in order to help them recover after the ordeal of their experiences.
Read moreNCHD Establishes Adult Literacy Centres For Prisoners
29-Aug-2025 - Pakistan
The National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) Sargodha has set up two adult literacy centers in the District Jail to equip illiterate inmates with basic education
Read moreLocal adult literacy programs face uncertain future as federal government dismantles the U.S. Department of Education
29-Aug-2025 - USA
Literacy Volunteers is one of two local adult education programs bracing for an uncertain future as U.S. Secretary of Education and former wrestling magnate Linda McMahon works to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education on President Donald Trump’s order.
Read moreReform councillor closes five Derbyshire adult education centres without consultation
29-Aug-2025 - UK
The Reform-run Derbyshire County Council is closing five adult education centres without any public consultation following a private meeting. Cllr Jack Bradley, Reform’s cabinet member for education, has unilaterally decided at a closed-doors meeting to shut five adult community education centres in Ashbourne, Matlock, Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Shirebrook and Long Eaton. This comes two months after Cllr Bradley also opted to close two centres in Alfreton and Glossop, also without public or user consultation.
Read moreAdult education teachers to stage march over job losses
27-Aug-2025 - Ireland
The Adult Education Teachers Organisation says that people in their first three years of employment have been laid off over the summer, as were other workers who lost their jobs in September of last year. After three years of employment workers gain rights that makes their jobs more secure.
Read moreRead Easy celebrates 10 years helping adults learn in Torbay
27-Aug-2025 - UK
An organisation which changes the lives of adults by helping them to read is celebrating 10 years in Torbay. Read Easy UK is the only national organisation in the country which provides a volunteer-led reading coaching programme for adults. Read Easy Torbay and South Devon’s current volunteer coaches, management team and readers were joined by Mandy Woodard, who started the group 10 years ago, retired volunteers and successful readers to mark the special occasion.
Read more