Brussels, 01/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 1 February, the European Commission kicked off the work of the high-level expert group on literacy. The objective of this group of independent experts, under the chairmanship of Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, is to develop guidelines to raise the level of literacy within the European Union, as part of the education objectives laid down in the Europe 2020 strategy (bringing the early school-leaving rate down below 10% and to raise to...