The Royal Shakespeare Company has expressed its support for a new report by the Commission on the Future of Oracy Education in England (OEC). The report calls for oracy – the ability to articulate ideas, develop understanding and engage with others through speaking, listening and communication – to be recognised alongside reading, writing and arithmetic as the fourth “R” of education.
The report, published today, calls for an increased emphasis on oracy education to better prepare young people for the future in an increasingly polarised society, recognition of oracy as an essential ‘building block for reading, writing and students’ academic progression’ and acknowledgement of the rising importance of oracy skills in ‘an AI-transformed labour market’.
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