King Sejong Prize awarded to institutions, organisations or individuals promoting literacy through effective and innovative programmes or projects.
This programme is designed for learners who have completed the basic literacy programme or for those with existing basic literacy skills.
We have 15 million children in the U.S. who are at marginal levels of literacy or lower.
Essentially therefore, millions of adult Canadians struggle to deal with or comprehend basic literacy material and are in need of further training.
On a global basis, there's no more significant or important issue than literacy.
Those with a ninth-grade literacy level or higher were 4 to 5 times as likely to maintain their mental capacity with age.
It is striking that participants do not view literacy classes or training courses as a set of mechanical skills or information that must be learned, but rather as a process of empowerment made possible by the exchange between participants, and between the self and the written word.
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As an entrepreneurial nonprofit that operates at the intersection of media, human rights, and technology, we have learned to adapt quickly when opportunities surface because of new technology or advances in digital-media literacy.
In Cambodia, the 2008 National Population Census placed the literacy rate of those aged 15 years or older at 77.6%.
His victory was challenged after newspapers reported that he could not read or write - but after he passed a basic literacy test, a judge in Sao Paulo ruled that he could take up his seat.
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You tell me: is government action necessary or is this another example of the importance that media literacy be taught in schools?
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Sure, Angry Birds has no letters or numbers, but there are other things to learn besides literacy and arithmetic.
The non-profit organisation offers residents state-of-the-art computers and courses to build their literacy and computer skills, work on their CVs or make money as Web designers.
These comparisons draw upon tests that are taken every three or four years, in areas such as maths, science and literacy - and so present a picture lagging by several years.
The Legislature provided little guidance, no funding for materials or teacher training when it passed the law in 2007 requiring Bible literacy to be taught starting in the 2009-2010 school year.
So there was no national expectation of success at school for young people - although nearly half of 11 year-olds were not even up to standard in the basics of literacy and numeracy and a similar proportion left school at or soon after 16 with few if any qualifications.
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To study for a doctorate, even in fine art or the poetry of the Tang dynasty, students need to show fluent literacy in English.
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He said that literacy rate in rural Sindh is alarmingly low and that more than half or 58% rural population of Sindh is illiterate.
The Youth Zone will support an additional 250 NEETS (not in education, employment, or training), and the shop will also offer pre-employment training, literacy and numeracy support.
Literacy opens up access to the knowledge and understandings vital to work (employment or self employment), health and family life as well as for active citizenship.
As we democratize language and literacy we have to resist the temptation to see in its evolution a sort of breakdown or moral failure simply because not everyone speaks or writes as well as the Bard or as Ralph Fiennes.
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Despite the growth of rationalism from the late 18th century on, the churches, or individuals with a desire to spread the Good Word, continued to be a driving force in bringing literacy to the lower classes.
Financial literacy website NerdWallet analyzed the senior exit surveys and post-graduation reports of 300, 000 graduating students or recent graduates to discover which colleges offer the best financial prospects for their students.
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