One of the internationally agreed EFA goals is to improve adult literacy levels by 50% by 2015.
Accordingly, youth literacy levels are estimated at approximately 98.51 per cent (2010), with very little gender disparity.
Launched at UN Headquarters in 2003, the Literacy Decade aims to improve literacy levels and empower people everywhere.
Subsequent detailed analysis of the IALS data showed a strong correlation in the United States between parental education and the literacy levels of youth.
The FAL programme endeavoured to improve literacy levels among adults as well as to empower people to demand access to quality basic social services.
This project is linked to the achievement of the 4th Education for All goal to increase adult literacy levels by 50% by 2015, especially for women.
She also highlighted her role as chair of the EU High Level Group of experts on literacy, which presents recommendations on how to tackle low literacy levels in Europe.
In the same issue you say that the levels of child poverty in Britain and America, where literacy levels are low, are much worse than in Germany and Denmark, where literacy levels are higher.
Why not adopt the technique favoured by modern corporate theory and offer Mr Moi (and a few of his nearest and dearest henchmen) an option scheme, based on economic growth rates, literacy levels or health indicators?
For example, the literacy levels of people aged 52-60 when tested in 1995 are used to estimate the competencies of 17-25-year-olds in 1960, and hence the human-capital investment that had just been made in the course of that cohort's education.
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The leadership of the municipal authorities in identifying potential beneficiaries and in coordinating activities to offer them an education relevant to their needs has been credited as a key factor in raising literacy levels and sustaining lifelong learning in the region.
The minister also answered questions on teachers' workload, literacy and numeracy levels and the Welsh-medium education Strategy.
Needless to say, adults with low levels literacy are less able to help their children and increase household income due to their limited ability to function efficiently within a market economy.
Levels of literacy have declined, contrary to the popular myth that they have improved.
We have 15 million children in the U.S. who are at marginal levels of literacy or lower.
The CBI recently warned that many employers were unhappy with the levels of literacy and numeracy among school leavers.
Its key goals are to raise levels of literacy among young people and offer better training for teaching professionals.
More than twice as many American Indian and native Alaskan adults scored below basic levels on literacy than white Americans.
Unacceptably large numbers of pupils are failing to achieve even minimal levels in literacy and numeracy, an independent report has concluded.
His colleague Dr Chris Hughes said 17% of children had not reached adequate levels of literacy and numeracy when leaving primary school.
We have so many other things to be ashamed of first -- like our literacy rate, poverty levels, health conditions, political leaders and parties, corruption, terrorism etc.
As they believe that there is a link between deprivation and lower levels of literacy, they called on the government to implement a pupil premium to address this.
Plaid Cymru Education Spokesperson Simon Thomas welcomed the review and urged the government to ensure that qualifications are only awarded to students with appropriate levels of literacy and numeracy.
In addition, participants who have higher levels of literacy and numeracy skills are encouraged to attend formal adult fourth grade evening classes at a school that partners with the project.
As for China's being too poor to afford democracy, today it is as well off as some of the world's poorest democracies were a quarter century ago, with high life expectancy and levels of literacy.
How is it that colonists in the 1770s, many of whom had little formal schooling, had higher levels of literacy, more expansive vocabularies and a better command and mastery of a wide variety of subjects, than the average student today?
Low levels of investor literacy have serious implications for America.
Life is an initiative to facilitate and contribute towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals and the EFA goals specifically goal 3 (ensuring the learning needs of all young people and adults), 4 (a 50 percent improvement in levels of adult literacy), and 5 (achieving gender equality in education).
The observation of cross-sector productivity improvements led to increased levels of interest in literacy attainment from many diverse parties, including the private sector and many government ministries.
The post literacy curriculum consists broadly of three levels.
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