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About 380,000 Kiwi adults' literacy skills are so poor they would be unable to determine how to use a fire extinguisher from the instructions written on the bottle.
Prime Minister Helen Clark yesterday revealed the finding in the previously unreleased 2006 Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey as she elaborated on plans to keep teenagers in training for longer.
The Labour-led Government is considering raising the school leaving age to 17 as part of a suite of measures to boost students' achievement and get them ready for the workforce. Here is the latest selection of Your Views:
