PARIS: A quarter of a billion children worldwide are failing to learn basic reading and maths skills in an education crisis that costs governments $129 billion annually, the United Nation’s (UN) cultural agency warned in a report on Wednesday.
Inadequate teaching across the world has left a legacy of illiteracy more widespread than previously thought, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) said in its annual monitoring report.
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