That means ensuring primary schools equip children with the basic skills of numeracy and literacy.
And certainly she has the basic skills required to work an entry-level retail or food-service job.
Yet, many young people lack the basic skills to make the most of what the world has to offer.
He upped the basic skills, made the players more responsible on the field in terms of creating and utilising space.
But it was really worth doing a news journalism course as it gave me all the basic skills I use today.
Have a 60-day plan: You most likely established during your first-round interviews that you have the basic skills to do the job.
But we need to get the leadership vetted properly and the leadership trained, and then the basic skills with the soldiers, they're obviously already there.
Earlier this year, the director of the Basic Skills Agency warned that parents who have few conversations with their children are damaging their language development.
The Basic Skills Agency, a quango charged with educating poorly-qualified people of all age groups, was not even consulted during the drafting of the white paper, it says.
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Instead the authors recommend that "policymakers should concentrate on educational reforms in primary and pre-school" and want more effort made to raise the basic skills of disadvantaged groups.
The Scottish Conservative amendment calling for children to be properly schooled and tested in the basic skills of literacy and numeracy by the end of primary 7, fell with 15 votes for and 106 against.
Some observers believe that nurturing young players on soft-grass academy playing fields deprives them of the basic skills that previous generations learned on the hard surfaces of neighborhood streets and tight corners of the schoolyard.
That said, this is not a charity or a non-profit, rather an educational program within a specific niche, giving a crash course to talented personnel who, in many cases, already possess the basic skills to break into the tech sphere.
Sure, more money is nice, but what they really need are the basic skills and experiences most of us take for granted: learning how to show up on time every day, how to work in a hierarchy, how to work with peers, how to interact with customers (not to mention job-specific skills, from cooking to carpentry).
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Efforts to rectify the "basic skills" problem have led to the folly of "21st-century skills" rather than a solid liberal arts curriculum.
Vulnerable to climate change, many are in desperate need of even the most basic skills to protect their livelihoods.
These free community-driven, community-operated learning centers help guarantee that children will have the basic academic skills needed for success in school and in life.
In the first two semesters, the students take basic skills classes for four hours per week, whereas in the final two semesters this weekly total is reduced to two hours.
And the new Education Secretary, Estelle Morris - working to fulfil an election pledge that 750, 000 adults would have the chance to develop basic skills - admitted some of the figures were "frightening".
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.
The new proposals do not address the problem of basic skills.
These should be of specific relevance for the country, covering issues such as the development of innovative concepts for the promotion of basic skills for adults, measures to eliminate barriers to participation, increases in public expenditure and improvements to legislative measures.
The current failure to deliver basic skills of numeracy and literacy during the day should be addressed as a "matter of urgency".
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Skills Minister Phil Hope says that, since 2001, more than 1.5 million people have "beaten their gremlins" by getting a basic skills qualification, under the Skills for Life strategy.
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Machines were taking all the jobs that required basic skills, it was argued.
The six subjects include basic skills, vocational training, classes covering aspects of work and employment, artistic and cultural expression workshops, ICT and physical education and sport.
Proposed activities included the provision of basic life skills along with literacy programs that will enhance work opportunities for unemployed illiterate youth and vulnerable communities throughout Iraq.
In developing countries, around 200 million young people need a second chance to acquire the basic literacy and numeracy skills, which are essential to learning further skills for work.
"Indeed in our view such competence is central to the success of primary mathematics, so much so that we would recommend an earlier emphasis for the mastery of some basic skills such as multiplication tables, " he said in a paper due to be published later this week.
The computer science introduction course teaches basic skills by having students build a Google-like search engine, using the programming language Python.
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