Sentences with phrase «illiterate adults»

Ignore politics and teach illiterate adults to read.

Girls and women still constitute the majority of out - of - school children and illiterate adults, and their learning opportunities are compromised by a number of in - school and out - of - school factors.

Yet, there are six million functionally illiterate adults in the UK at an estimated cost of # 2.5 billion a year to the country.

By purchasing the $ 179.95 kit, the advertisements proclaim, children can become «super readers,» and illiterate adults, in the privacy of their own homes, can finally learn how to read.

While globally the percentage of illiterate adults fell from 18 % in 2000 to 14 % in 2015, this progress is almost entirely attributed to more educated young people reaching adulthood.

This year's EFA Global Monitoring Report (GMR) shows that there are still some 57 million primary age children and 63 million adolescents out of school and about 781 million illiterate adults globally.

By 1985, about 300 000 illiterate adults from all over the country, many of whom had never attended primary school, had learnt how to read, write and use numbers.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

But other issues also need to be addressed to enable long - term wealth creation in the region — not least the record number of 75 million illiterate adults, the fatal mismatch within the labour market and, most importantly, the gender inequality in both education and employment.

While about two - thirds of the world's illiterate adults are female, research shows that educated mothers are more likely to participate in the labor force.

Women continue to make up almost two - thirds of the illiterate adult population.

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According to this survey, 57 % of US adults are financially illiterate.

Now a long - term study carried out in Nicaragua has eliminated these factors by showing that teaching reading to poor adult women, who would otherwise have remained illiterate, has a direct effect on their children's health and survival.

The UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy — supported by the Government of the People's Republic of China and dedicated to literacy work benefitting rural populations and out - of - school youth, particularly girls and women — is awarded to laureates in South Africa, India, and Senegal: The South African Department of Basic Education for its Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign; the Jan Shikshan Sansthan organization in Kerala, India, for its programme, Vocational Skill Development for Sustainable Development, and the Directorate of Literacy and National Languages in Senegal for its National Education Programme for Illiterate Youth and Adults through ICTs.

How to ensure that future generations of adults do not suffer from such problems is, of course, education's $ 64,000 question (though the price tag is considerably higher these days) and there have been as many proposals for increasing literacy as there are illiterates.

According to Sir Claus Moser, chairman of the Basic Skills Agency, one in five adults in Britain is functionally illiterate.

Similarly, two thirds or 493 million of the world's adult illiterate population are women.

However, about 21 % of adults remain illiterate in Jamaica.

Make audiotapes and videotapes to reach the 14 percent of U.S. adults who are illiterate.

In 1970, a study made by UNESCO indicated that about 50 % of adults were illiterate in Jamaica.

It has, however, been true of some D.C. public school graduates in years past, with some D.C. adult literacy programs populated by essentially illiterate system graduates.

One of the saddest things about adult illiteracy and ESL language learners is not the staggering rates of adults who are still classified as functionally illiterate, or the numbers of immigrants who may learn to speak a language with some level of comfort and fluency but never develop basic reading skills; it's the... [Read more...]

One of the saddest things about adult illiteracy and ESL language learners is not the staggering rates of adults who are still classified as functionally illiterate, or the numbers of immigrants who may learn to speak a language with some level of comfort and fluency but never develop basic reading skills; it's the quality — or lack thereof — of instructional materials for adult learners.

Did you know that 38 percent of adults in Africa are illiterate?

Because an overwhelming percentage of students are totally financially illiterate — lacking any understanding of budgeting, debt, investing, and other essential financial knowledge — most young adults develop spending habits that will thwart their efforts to become financially solvent as they mature.