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OECD basic skills report makes grim reading by Brian Creese on the UCL Institute of Education (IOE) Blog Posted on February 11, 2016                    Brian Creese .  After three years of deliberation, number crunching and further evidence-seeking, the OECD has published its report on the basic skills of adults in England based on the 2012 Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies ( PIAAC) survey . It does not make for happy reading, and to save you the misery of trawling through its 110 pages, I thought you might like a brief summary. But you may want a stiff drink before you settle down and read this blog… An estimated nine million adults of working age have low basic skills. This is the number of working age adults OECD estimates have poor or very poor literacy and/or numeracy skills and puts England close to the bottom of the OECD rankings. The particular concern for England is that while in other countries standards are improving, in E