The Front Page: How New Zealand's low literacy rate impacts the economy
Literacy is essential no matter what career path you choose. Photo / NZME
Low literacy rates don’t just impact New Zealand’s schoolchildren.
The flow-on effect bleeds into adulthood, affecting their university and ultimately career prospects.
“If you want to go to university, clearly you have to be able to read and write at a high level,” Dubby Henry, a New Zealand Herald education reporter, tells the Front Page podcast.
“And we want everyone to be able to do that so all different sectors of society can be represented in fields like medicine and law.
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