The Curriculum and eLearning Department is not in a position to calculate the number of illiterate youth leaving schools, Education Minister Dolores Cristina said in Parliament in reply to a question by Anthony Agius Decelis (PL). According to the latest census of 2005, a literate person is one that can write and read a simple sentence about its daily life.

Mrs Cristina said that secondary school-leavers are given a certificate showing how they have done in the annual examinations. The Educational Quality and Standards Directorate is currently working to ensure that each boy or girl ending their compulsory education are given a certificate that shows not only how they have done on an academic level but also their skills, abilities and other aspects developed during their school years.

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