Illiteracy

There are 9,152 illiterate people in Cyprus, of which 6,776 are women, according to Yiannis Yiannaki; Commissioner for Volunteerism and NGOs.  Moreover 5,575 have never attended school, while 24,751 did not graduate from primary school, the Commissioner said in a statement for...

In a speech in Nicosia in her home country of Cyprus, The European Union's Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Commissioner Androula Vassileiou said that illiteracy is still a lingering problem in many countries. She was speaking at a conference organized...