The conference also urged the executive to support the Liberal Democrat policy to add a penny onto the basic rate of income tax, provide teaching facilities in Gaelic and other minority languages where there is demand, and ensure that class sizes are reduced across the whole age range of pupils.

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These are the places where mostly poor people send their children for learning Koranic teaching, basic education, and the other attraction, of course, is that there is free boarding and lodging over there, and with the Pakistani educational system in shambles, this is a pretty attractive place for poor families to send their children.

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These projects focused on capacity building in selected key areas of the physical and biological sciences and on promoting experimentation in science education by using Microscience kits for teaching of different basic science disciplines in schools and higher education institutions.

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So far, one external evaluation has been carried out in order to assess the effectiveness of the methodological approach employed by AAEA. In 2008, DVV International evaluated the extent to which APLICA has successfully achieved its goals in teaching basic literacy and numeracy skills, and has improved the quality of life of learners and facilitators.

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Beyond pointing his finger at the problem, though, Mr Sanchez has not said much about how to realise his goal of teaching all children to read and do basic maths by the time they are eight.

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