In the rural areas there was literacy and numeracy instruction targeted at women.

The literacy programmes were functional in the sense that they also taught numeracy and income related entrepreneurial skills.

There are also a number of recent initiatives aimed at increasing the literacy and numeracy skills of indigenous students.

In the area of youth, activities were supported and implemented aiming at enhancing employment opportunities of youngsters through post literacy and numeracy training, vocational training and capacity building.

I did the coursework because understanding computers is important to me, just like literacy and numeracy, and I made it through. I never worked harder on anything, never been challenged to this degree.

Education is important literacy and numeracy are essential but not enough the education system should promote the full exercise of citizenship by individuals and their enjoyment of their rights, including meaningful participation in decision making.

22. Bearing in mind that literacy and numeracy are preconditions for access to and effective use of ICT, Governments should promote opportunities through formal and non formal channels for young persons to acquire the appropriate knowledge.

Tertiary and Further Education (TAFE) New South Wales provides two women only courses to address the needs of women facing a range of barriers, such as disability, age, cultural difference, language, literacy, numeracy, unemployment, imprisonment or isolation.

As it stands, poor educational outcomes and inefficient education systems are eliciting deep concern worldwide. In many countries, primary schools fail to provide students with appropriate cognitive skills like numeracy, literacy, problem solving ability, and general scientific knowledge.

Investments in employment programs Job Connect links Ontarians, primarily unemployed youth between the ages of 16 to 24, to employment and training opportunities and Literacy and Basic Skills Program helps learners gain the literacy and numeracy skills they need to improve their employment.

It has also been observed that Viet Nam, with its high rates of literacy and numeracy, long experience with mass organizations and ability to mobilize people down to the village level, has sufficient absorptive capacity to continue moving forward in developing programmes and strategies for reducing poverty.

Those who grew up with the children s educational TV show Sesame Street know that it gives five year olds easy to take lessons in literacy, numeracy, and social skills. But Sesame Street has a loftier agenda, finding partners in the developing world including Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Pakistan to bring the fuzzy little creatures, with their message of peace and tolerance, to local audiences.

Goal 6 of the Dakar Framework is to improve all aspects of the quality of education, ensuring their excellence so that recognized and measurable learning outcomes are achieved by all, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills.3 It provides the basis for a concept of quality education that goes beyond reading, writing and arithmetic, and which, while necessarily dynamic, is strongly rights based and entails democratic citizenship, values and solidarity as important outcomes.

This lack of special measures may lead to the alienation of these children from their communities and to the loss of cultural diversity in Cambodia. 130. Also important for Cambodia is the development and implementation of nationwide basic education to enhance adult literacy and numeracy. Such efforts are essential to build an adequate workforce, improve the health of the people, reduce infant mortality, improve children apos s learning and increase agricultural and other productive capacity.