2/8. While 20 per cent of British adults are deemed to have a literacy problem, illiteracy is almost unknown in Finland. Finnish schoolchildren top the world's literacy tables. So what are the Finns doing right? Eight years ago in Ireland, a quarter of adults were registered as having difficulties reading and writing. Since then the Irish have boosted spending on adult literacy more than tenfold and tens of thousands have taken up literacy classes. Paul Henley asks whether Finland and Ireland have lessons to offer the UK.
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