The shortcomings in the provision of education to children and basic literacy skills to adults made the implementation of the Family Basic Education (FABE) programme imperative.
And there was a sustained expansion of the higher-education system: the share of working-age adults with a university degree rose from 5% in 1980 to 14% in 1996 and 31% in 2011, a faster increase than in France, Germany or the US. The combination of these policies helped the UK to bridge the GDP-per-capita gap with other leading nations.
The underlying assumption for taking such an approach was the idea that once adults understand the importance of education, they would automatically demand for and support education of their children.
At the launch education minister Ivan Lewis said millions of adults in the UK did not have the skills of an average 11 year old.
The report documents some of the changes in the U.S. workforce which have increased the need for flexibility in the workplace, including the increased number of women entering the labor force, the prevalence of families where all adults work, increasing eldercare responsibilities, and the rising importance of continuing education.
According to the Global Education Digest, a report published last year by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 69 out of 100 adults of college age are enrolled in higher-education programs in Europe and North America.
Over 40% of the foreign-born adults in the United States have at least some college education, thereby making that country the epicenter of the global talent drain.
Good quality, low-cost options for higher education abound (despite the rising price of private tuition), yet the children of poorly educated adults are less likely to make the necessary investment in education.
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It is especially aimed at teachers of the final grades of Primary Education as well as high school teachers and health sector professionals working with young adults and teenagers, mainly in basic health care.
The UKNC for UNESCO fully supports the Education for All (EFA) goals which aim to meet the learning needs of all children, youth and adults by 2015.
Women, particularly in the developing world, continue to under-perform: nearly one in five girls who enrolls in primary school does not complete her education, soon becoming one of the more than 781 million illiterate adults in developing nations.
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But still the shadow of the past is in every conversation, from the indicted leader in The Hague, who is filling newspaper inches every other day - and there are an awful lot of newspapers in Liberia - to the young adults whose education was disrupted, to the nation's ruling elite.
The joint bid focuses on enticing the whole community to use the facilities, with plans to get thousands of youngsters visiting education resources, while adults will be encouraged to take up health and well-being programmes.
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They identified six key education goals which aim to meet the learning needs of all children, youths and adults by the year 2015.
UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: Education for All
In fact, according to the National Endowment for Financial Education, about one-third (31 percent) of US adults who combined assets with a spouse or partner say they have been deceptive about money, and women are more likely than men to say their partner or spouse lied to them about finances, debt, money earned (65 percent vs. 47 percent respectively).
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Among adults aged 25-29, the proportion with five years of primary education went from 98.8 percent to 99.2 percent during the period from 1990 to 1997, and the proportion of those with a high school diploma rose from 86 to 87 percent.
He emphasized that constitutional right to education ought to be enforced to block further addition of illiterate youth and adults in the existing lot of illiterate population.
Education should be a means to empower children and adults alike to become active participants in the transformation of their societies.
Specifically, he directed that the majority of his assets would be used to pay education expenses and assistance to benefit poor children and young adults who attended schools in either South Carolina or Georgia.
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According to the NEAP, the focus of literacy and non-formal education programmes is on out-of-school children, youths and adults but especially women and girls and those who have never been to school such as former child soldiers.
Without a stable family, their chances of moving up the education and income ladder are stunted, which in turn reduces their odds of getting married as adults.
Abstinence only education relies too much on the fairy tale that all our hormone-addled teenagers and young adults have deep reserves of self discipline.
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