Taking Britain as an example, the problems exposed in the "International Adult Literacy Survey" led the British government to set up the "Working Group on Basic Skills after School". The group submitted a report entitled "Starting over: improving literacy and numeracy". The report begins: "In China, one fifth of adults are functionally illiterate, and more people can't do arithmetic. This is a blow and thought-provoking for the school education we have been engaged in for decades. " In March, 20001,the English government launched the project "Life Skills: A National Strategy to Improve Adult Literacy and Arithmetic Skills". This is a three-year project with a total government budget of 654.38+500 million pounds. The goal is to improve the literacy and arithmetic abilities of 750,000 people by 2004.

In 2002, the government invested another 6,543.86 billion pounds in this project. In 20001year, the United Nations Children's Fund and the Kosovo Open Society Foundation began to implement literacy projects. They soon found that the existing local textbooks could not be used. They changed their original way of working. First, they set up a preparatory seminar group composed of representatives of local women's organizations, consultants from the Institute of Education and an interpreter to write new textbooks. This group has developed a set of teaching materials called "Window of Life". This set of textbooks has been adopted by literacy projects in 19 cities in all five regions of Kosovo. In 2002, there were more than 130 organizations in Kosovo, with a total of about 2,250 people studying in schools, clubs and women's groups several times a week. Women of all ages take part in this project.

The Ugandan government began to implement the adult functional literacy project from 1992. This project focuses on how to solve problems and involves many fields. For example, this project links literacy learning with students' daily life and helps them master the skills of dealing with daily problems. In 2000, the number of people studying through this program reached 65,438+270,000.

The 2004 International Literacy Award Sejong King Award was awarded to the Office of the Leading Group for Eliminating Illiteracy in Qinghai Province. The reason why Qinghai won the prize is simple: in order to meet the needs of a large number of people in remote areas, Qinghai has focused its literacy work on all women and ethnic minorities, combining literacy work with skills training that meets the daily life of farmers and herdsmen. Lifelong education, as an extremely important educational concept, has been widely spread around the world since the mid-1960s with the vigorous promotion and popularization of UNESCO and other relevant international institutions. Many countries take the concept of lifelong education as the basis, the basic principles put forward by lifelong education as the starting point and the realization of these principles as the main goal when formulating their own educational policies or constructing the framework of national education system. Lifelong education is a good way to solve functional illiteracy. Individuals should attach importance to lifelong education and constantly improve their ability to acquire new terms and technologies.