%0 Journal Article
%T Editorial
%A Jean Searle
%J Literacy and Numeracy Studies
%D 2011
%I UTS ePRESS
%X We are constantly being reminded by governments and the media that we now live in a globalised economy and in order to compete we need a highly educated workforce. In this context, literacy and numeracy skills are not only used as international benchmarks to record a nation¡¯s competitiveness and wellbeing, but these skills are also deemed to be fundamental to employment. A lack of, or inadequate literacy and numeracy, means to be marginalised, that is, barred from access to new forms of knowledge and new modes of thinking.
%U http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/lnj/article/view/2023