Declining literacy skills among younger adults has implications for Singapore’s workforce

Speaker: Assoc Prof (Practice) Terence Ho 20 Dec 2024

According to the Survey of Adult Skills, an international study under the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), there is a decline in the literacy scores for both lower-educated and more highly-educated adults in the recent Cycle 2 survey. Assoc Prof (Practice) Terence Ho from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS remarked that this has implications for the competitiveness of Singapore’s workforce and economy, particularly given the importance of human capital to Singapore’s economy.

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