The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has Public Sector Agreement (PSA) targets to raise the level of basic skills in England such that by 2020 95% of the population have literacy skills at Level 1 or above, and 95% of the population have numeracy skills at Entry level 3 or above. These targets are known as threshold targets to denote that these are the minimum basic skills levels required.
As a contribution towards estimating the number of course achievements required to meet these threshold targets, this study set out to estimate the proportion of learners achieving a literacy or numeracy qualification higher than the threshold level, and who have done so from a starting point of skills below the threshold target.
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