Archive for February, 2012

Literacy problems show Charles Dickens’s world persists – says Nick Gibb

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Poor neighbourhoods in England are still beset by Victorian-era levels of illiteracy, the schools minister has claimed. In a speech on reading, Nick Gibb said that despite two centuries of technological and social revolution, there were “still shadows of Charles Dickens’s world … Continue reading

Literacy problems show Charles Dickens’s world persists – says Nick Gibb

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Poor neighbourhoods in England are still beset by Victorian-era levels of illiteracy, the schools minister has claimed. In a speech on reading, Nick Gibb said that despite two centuries of technological and social revolution, there were “still shadows of Charles Dickens’s world … Continue reading