numeracy skills
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnumeracyandskill
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numeracy
noun[U]
uk/ˈnjuː.mə.rə.si/us/ˈnuː.mə.rə.si/
ability to do ...
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skill
noun[C or U]
uk/skɪl/us/skɪl/
an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have ...
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(Definition ofnumeracyandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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All establishments provide an induction programme and initial assessment of each offender's literacy and numeracy skills.
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The early intervention programme, worth a total of £60m over five years, will establish the basic literacy and numeracy skills children will need.
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That sector contains many people with numeracy skills.
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Later, especially in primary school, there are major problems, and too many of our children fall behind in literacy and numeracy skills.
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Additional funding has also been provided to extend education, which is targeting literacy and numeracy skills.
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The schools are competing with business, which demands higher and higher numeracy skills—and can pay for them.
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Some of them started last year for pupils to develop literacy and numeracy skills.
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There are about 7 million adults in the country whose literacy and numeracy skills are inadequate for everyday life.
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The strategy aims to support 25,000 adults to improve their literacy and numeracy skills by 2005.
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Sixty per cent of prisoners have literacy and numeracy skills at or below the lowest basic skill level.
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Advances in technology are placing ever more emphasis on good literacy and numeracy skills.
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In 2001–02, £17 million will be spent to help parents and children improve their literacy and numeracy skills together.
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Until last year, there was no large-scale collection of information on literacy and numeracy skills, so annual data are not available.
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Until last year, information on literacy and numeracy skills had not been collected on a regular basis, so annual data are not available.
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We must tackle the silent scandal that one in five adults still do not have basic literacy and numeracy skills.
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On a more basic level, last year colleges helped about 0.3 million adults to improve their basic literacy and numeracy skills.
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He also announced an increase in annual spending on measures to improve literacy and numeracy skills from £241 million this year to £403 million in 2004.
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We are putting in train programmes to improve numeracy skills.
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We know that there are many adults whose basic literacy and numeracy skills are far below what they should be.
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Tackling adult literacy and numeracy skills has taken a turn for the better after a local publicity campaign overcame the shortage of tutors.
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