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Ceinwen Fergus

Ceinwen Fergus

Regional Literacy Coordinator with Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB), part of Ireland's Adult Literacy for Life initiative.

Sep 8, 2026

2:22
So, Kynwen, are you happy to start with that?
2:25
Yeah, thanks, Virgin.
2:27
Yes, I mean, reading, writing, numeracy, and I think increasingly the digital skills are still, I suppose, the basis of literacy, what people need to be able to do in order to participate in general life.
2:41
There are also, I suppose, more particular aspects of literacy that we're now engaging with or we're now becoming more aware of.
2:47
So things like financial literacy, one that I recently encountered in a conversation with somebody was grief literacy.
2:55
So the language around grief, how people talk about that, how they talk about loss.
3:01
It wasn't something that had ever dawned on me that this was even a thing, but there is a particular area of literacy around that.
5:19
So what do we mean when we say an unmet literacy need?

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