A total of 38,572 non-literate persons aged 15 years and above will take up the basic literacy test under the New India Literacy Programme to be held at 1,521 centres across the district here on ...

MANILA, Philippines — A higher basic and functional literacy rate was recorded among individuals who reached at least a high school level of education, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said.

A friend of mine, a young mother, vented her frustration on Facebook. “In today’s day and age it’s not hard to spend a bit of time looking at the sources,” she wrote. That sounds plausible — until you ...