Sentences with phrase «illiteracy rates by»

Mastery learning has been hailed as the answer to rising illiteracy rates by some educators and criticized heavily by others, the speakers suggested.

A recent Plaid Cymru press release stated: «We will aim to have illiteracy rates by the end of the next Assembly term.»

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The books are published by the Oxford University Press as a direct response to something that has been worrying educationalists for some while - the fact that boys vastly outnumber girls in illiteracy rates, and that many start secondary schools with very poor reading skills and no apparent interest in acquiring any.

«Primarily because of grand corruption under successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999, millions of Nigerians continue to live in extreme poverty, a condition manifested by the lack of clean water, malnutrition, high rates of child mortality and morbidity, low life expectancy, illiteracy, perception of hopelessness and social exclusion.»

We're going to ensure that we halve illiteracy rates within the next five years, and that we virtually eradicate the problem by 2020.

Created in 1921, in response to a 25 percent illiteracy rate among World War I soldiers, the event began as an attempt by the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Legion to generate public support for education.

to consider should be the following: 1) the achievement of full employment or reduction in the unemployment rate; 2) increase the income distribution measured by the Gini index; 3) reduction of the levels of crime in society; 4) increase in service levels of education, health, housing and transport to the population; 5) increase of the investment in infrastructure, education, health, housing and sanitation; 6) increase in the HDI - Human Development Index, used by the United Nations, which takes into account GDP per capita, the longevity of people and their education (measured by illiteracy rate and the enrollment rates at various levels of education); and 7) increase of GNH (Gross National Happiness) indicator, which analyzes 73 variables that contribute most to the goal of achieving the well - being and satisfaction with life (See GNH posted in website

Indeed, in 1975, an Adult Literacy Survey declared that the illiteracy rate had decreased by 32 %.

A 2009 report by ALECSO, the Arab League's Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation, revealed an overall illiteracy rate of 35.6 percent in the Arab world compared with a global rate of 18 percent.

The female illiteracy rate has dropped by 10 percentage points.