London newspaper campaign provides compelling reasons to tackle illiteracy head-on

A London newspaper, The Evening Standard launched a Campaign tackling illiteracy in the capital, London. A series of reports this week on illiteracy in London showed that the problem comes at a heavy personal cost: illiterates are disruptive at school and humiliated by their failures. But it has other results. London businesses discard four in 10 job applications because the applicant has poor spelling and grammar. Being unable to read and write properly denies many people the chance of even being considered for a job.