Minister Haughey announces Ireland's participation in a new international literacy survey [education.ie]
- Published: 18 November 2009
The Minister for Lifelong Learning, Sean Haughey TD, today announced Ireland's participation in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), a new OECD international survey of adult competencies and skills, including literacy and numeracy.
PIAAC is a major international survey of adults between the ages of 16-65 on a range of skills covering the interest, attitude and capacity of individual adults to access, manage, understand, integrate and evaluate various types of information (principally text and numerical) as well as to respond and communicate with others in the information age.
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