http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/ en-gb Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:21:24 GMT http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/News/January-2008/Mind-your-language-critics-warn-BBC.aspx http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/News/January-2008/Mind-your-language-critics-warn-BBC.aspx Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:31:26 GMT Mistakes prompt a demand for grammar to be policed ‘The BBC is being urged to appoint a language chief by critics who claim that its reputation as a bastion of the Queen's English is fading fast. They claim that presenters and correspondents on both television and radio routinely misuse words, make grammatical mistakes and use colloquialisms in place of standard English. Anushka Asthana and Vanessa Thorpe The Observer, Sunday October 28 2007 http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/News/January-2008/12m-workers-have-reading-age-of-children.aspx http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/News/January-2008/12m-workers-have-reading-age-of-children.aspx Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:30:55 GMT Poor results from £6bn skills scheme Up to 16 million adults - nearly half the workforce - are holding down jobs despite having the reading and writing skills expected of children leaving primary school, a new report reveals today. Rebecca Smithers, education editor The Guardian Tuesday January 24, 2006 http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/News/January-2008/UK-lacks-basic-skills.aspx http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/News/January-2008/UK-lacks-basic-skills.aspx Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:30:21 GMT Lord Leitch warns that low skills levels can hold back productivity and growth of the UK economy. Trainingreference.co.uk 06 December 2006 http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/News/January-2008/Tesco-boss-says-too-many-leave-school-without-basic-skills.aspx http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/News/January-2008/Tesco-boss-says-too-many-leave-school-without-basic-skills.aspx Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:29:17 GMT By Graeme Paton, Education Editor Daily Telegraph Last Updated: 2:29am BST 13/09/2007 Companies are struggling to find skilled staff as thousands leave school with a poor grasp of the three Rs, Tesco chief executive claimed. Almost 1 in 6 firms has to give teenagers remedial lessons in English and Maths. http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/News/January-2008/Graduates-lack-basic-skills-set.aspx http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/News/January-2008/Graduates-lack-basic-skills-set.aspx Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:28:48 GMT by SARAH HARRIS, Daily Mail - 13th June 2006 More than half of employers believe it is harder to find graduates with the right skills compared to a decade ago, a new report has revealed. http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/News/January-2008/Illiteracy-rate-is-a-national-disgrace-says-Sir-Digby.aspx http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/News/January-2008/Illiteracy-rate-is-a-national-disgrace-says-Sir-Digby.aspx Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:28:02 GMT By Richard Tyler Last Updated: 1:42am GMT 18/01/2007 The Telegraph Sir Digby Jones, the Government's skills envoy, painted a bleak picture yesterday of a divided Britain in 2020 if employers refuse to train their unskilled staff. http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/News/January-2008/The-4bn-bill-for-teaching-Britons-basic-work-skills.aspx http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/News/January-2008/The-4bn-bill-for-teaching-Britons-basic-work-skills.aspx Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:27:12 GMT By KIRSTY WALKER - 16th November 2007 Daily Mail Billions of pounds of taxpayers' cash will be ploughed into training places over the next three years in an attempt to reverse the literacy and numeracy crisis, ministers announced yesterday. http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/News/January-2008/Mind-your-language-critics-warn-BBC-Observer-28th-October-2007.aspx http://www.BWSBusiness.co.uk/News/January-2008/Mind-your-language-critics-warn-BBC-Observer-28th-October-2007.aspx Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:09:20 GMT Mistakes prompt a demand for grammar to be policed ‘The BBC is being urged to appoint a language chief by critics who claim that its reputation as a bastion of the Queen's English is fading fast. They claim that presenters and correspondents on both television and radio routinely misuse words, make grammatical mistakes and use colloquialisms in place of standard English. Sir Michael Lyons, chair of the BBC Trust, will receive an open letter tomorrow calling for a 'democratic airing' of the proposals, which advocate the creation of a new post to scrutinise 'the syntax, vocabulary and style' of thousands of staff heard on the air. Although the BBC has a department dedicated to pronunciation, it has no equivalent for vocabulary or grammar.