July 07, 2015
New Literacy assessment tool for Maori
A new online tool has been developed to assess literacy for Maori learners.
Te Ata Hapara was launched today by Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce at the Annual National Centre of Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Symposium in Wellington.
There is also a new tool for learners with English as a second language.
Mr Joyce says this year more than $300 million will be invested in literacy and numeracy learning and assessment programmes through the Tertiary Education Commission.
He says there are 1.3 million New Zealanders with low or very low literacy and numeracy skills, with Maori and Pasifika adults over represented in the statistics.
In 2013 about 175,000 adult learners received help with literacy and numeracy, and the number continues to grow with the embedding of literacy and numeracy throughout foundation-level education.
Submissions on the government’s literacy and numeracy strategy up to 2020 close on July 15.
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