On BBC Breakfast at 06:25 this morning, the Reporting Scotland team were allowed to share with the rest of the UK, their disgracefully inaccurate report claiming that 26% of Scots were illiterate and that meant 1.9 million! The claim was supported by Professor Lindsay Paterson.
It’s a lie.
The facts:
From the University of Glasgow’s full report, in 2009:
around one-quarter of the Scottish population (26.7%) may face occasional challenges and constrained opportunities due to their literacies difficulties, but will generally cope with their day-to-day lives; and within this quarter of the population, 3.6% (one person in 28) face serious challenges in their literacies practices.
They also fail to tell us, from the National Literacy Trust based on data from 2012:
1 in 6 (16.4% / 7.1 million people) adults in England have very poor literacy skills.
1 in 8 (12% / 216,000 people) adults in Wales lack basic literacy skills.
1 in 5 (17.4% / 256,000 people) adults in Northern Ireland have very poor literacy skills.
So, ‘serious’ or ‘very poor’ literacy is around 4 times higher in England, 3 times higher in Wales and 5 times higher in Northern Ireland, than in Scotland.
Sources:
https://literacytrust.org.uk/parents-and-families/adult-literacy/
Talking-up Scotland 
The SDLP and others are complaining about BBC Northern Ireland’s editorial decision making.
The SNP MUST do the same (and Greens).
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That would be to do the same with the dreadful BBC Scotland.
Its Brit Nat bias, lack of funding, poor quality output, colonial weather map (just when you thought it was consigned to history), North British mentality, lack of Scottish cultural reference, history or personnel.
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Av jist bin gave a joab wi bbc skotland as a jurnlist and thay wir very impresed wi my intervew as i wis able to spel SNPBaaad .
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Downright lies. BBC Scotland should be sued. Paterson is part of the problem a downright liar. He should be sacked. There are professional standards. These are be blatantly disregarded. Glasgow university has blantant bias receiving £Millions of taxpayers monies. Allowing it’s reputation to be tarnished by lying staff. Masonics. Unionist.
Scotland has one of the best education systems in the world by any standards. More people pro rata go to university. A highly education population. The highest number pro rata. 30% from school, 25% mature students, EU studebts 7%. Down from 15% reciprocal. Brexit.
Foreign student paying the full cost. The highest % in the world pro rata. 15 universities the highest number pro rata in the world. Colleges and apprenticeships. Canada is next 56%.
The education system would be even better without Westminster Gov interference and unionist councils total incompetence. Building empty shops and offices, instead of schools and houses.
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1 in 20 people are on the spectrum. Some may never be able to read and write to the norm. They have exceptional other talents and skills. Everything ever invented in the world is by people on the spectrum. Autistic, ADHD, dyslexic but super talented above the norm. Scotland ‘the land of discovery and invention’.- Chinese. ‘Britain A small island without Empire’.
Scotland the first country in the world to have tertiary education – 14 years. The ability to learn, not the ability to pay. Church education. Tithe 10th originally.
Radio, TV, telecommunications led on to the internet. Scottish invention. Literature, Burns, music, healthcare, engineering. Inventions that changed the world. Beautiful landscape. Best in the world. Migration to US, Australia, NZ, Canada, etc, Best places to be. Scotland shaped the world. The enlightenment. Philosophy. The Declaration at Arbroath. Equality, liberty and fraternity. The rights of man. (people).
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Is it not less than 1 in 28 as it’s 3.6% of 25% of the population?
Please check my maths.
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One in 28 is 3.57%?rounded to 3.6
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I’ve tried. They just circle the journo wagons.
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Yes, they worded that wrongly to suggest it was 3.6% of the 26% who reported any kind of problem when they should have been clear it was 3.6% of the whole sample.
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Better retitled “Only 3.6% of Scots ‘face serious challenges’ when confronted by BBC Scotland and Prof Paterson who lie to all UK viewers”….
AKA most use the time honoured phrase, PISH.
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