Sentences with phrase «low literacy skills when»

«Schooling and learning is not a race, but if it were, for those students who have no or low literacy skills when they start school, it would be like starting 50 metres behind those with literacy skills and trying to make up that gap.

Not exact matches

While such lower - level digital skills are critical to eventually gaining what we as a nation mean when we say «digital literacy,» those aren't the skills critical to life in the new century.

This study shows that students who attended schools where less than 25 per cent of their peers have literacy skills when they start school achieved significantly lower, on average, than students who attend schools where greater proportions of their peers begin formal schooling equipped with literacy skills.

Professor Wolf had warned that hundreds of thousands of teenagers were being consigned to low - quality «dead end» vocational courses, when they really needed the type of basic skills in literacy and numeracy required by employers.