With youth unemployment on the rise, now is not the time to scrap proven job-boosting skills like Latin and maths, writes Jamila Robertson

Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty recently announced the launch of the Richmond Project, a charity that helps to break down barriers to numeracy and unlock the socially mobilising power of numbers.

In an op-ed in The Times, Murty revealed that poor numeracy costs the UK economy up to £25bn annually; 8m adults have maths skills below those expected of a nine-year-old; and people with poor numeracy are more than twice as likely to be unemployed.

The power of Latin

Skills matter, which is why teachers across the country were collectively perplexed by the government’s decision to remove the Advanced Maths Support and Latin Excellence Programmes halfway through this academic year.

As a Latin graduate who fell in love with the subject in the “Caecilius est in........

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