literacy

Cursive handwriting -- the flowing, graceful script that was the hallmark of the written word for millennia, until the advent of the printing press -- is clearly threatened now around the globe. With computers and screens of all kinds now...

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...