Launch of Interim Report From World Literacy Foundation: Illiteracy is Costing the UK Economy 81 Pounds Sterling Billion a Year

OXFORD, England, January 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

    Date:       Wednesday 25 January 2012
    Time:       11am
    Location:   Novotel Hotel
                Paris Suite 113 Lambeth Road
                SE1 7LS LONDON
    Details:    The World Literacy Foundation is releasing its preliminary
                report The Economic & Social Cost of Illiteracy: A Snapshot of
                Illiteracy, its Causes and Consequences in the UK.
                (The full report will be released at the World Literacy Summit,
                sponsored by Pearson International, to be held in Oxford from
                1-4 April 2012.)
    Speakers:   World Literacy Foundation CEO Andrew Kay
                World Literacy Summit Chairman and international literacy
                academic Dr. Anthony Cree
    More info:  Andrew Kay on 078-6793-3115 or email
                andrew.kay@worldliteracyfoundation.org