What are recommended readings for recent developments within the literacy/numeracy field in Higher Education/universities in Australia?

22 September 2016 1 2K Report

to create a summary of developments within literacy/numeracy in Australian HE post the Bradley report and in relation to increasingly diverse cohorts with a wide variety of literacy levels.

Catherine Blunden

Hi Harshvardhan

Thank you so much for your responses, your suggestions have been interesting and helpful!

Kind regards

Catherine

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