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Addressing functional illiteracy
FUNCTIONAL illiteracy in the Philippines is a pressing issue that demands urgent attention. The 2024 Functional Literacy, ...
First Literacy has awarded over $40,000 in grant funds to nonprofits across Massachusetts providing adult basic education services, including criminal justice programs in Charlestown and Hampden ...
The Philippines continues to register a strong basic literacy rate of 93.1 percent among individuals aged five years old and above, including those in Central Visayas, according to the 2024 ...
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EDITORIAL — High literacy rate, but…
And now for some good news: seven in 10 Filipinos age 10 to 64 are functionally literate while a high nine in 10 can read, write and perform basic mathematics. This is according to the 2024 Functional ...
The Reading Public Library will offer a financial literacy program in March at its main branch. The program, led by Valerie Garcia, financial wellness officer for Vision Credit Union, is free and ...
The Cordillera Administrative Region in the northern Philippines recorded the highest functional literacy rate at 81.2 percent, while the Zamboanga Peninsula region has the lowest at 59.3 percent.
A $300,000 grant from the US Charitable Gift Trust will enable First Literacy of Boston to significantly expand its adult education scholarship program, the nonprofit said Friday.
The Joan & Alan Bernikow JCC of Staten Island will soon offer Adolescent Literacy, Adult Basic Education/High School Equivalency and English for Speakers of Other Languages programs.
The results of the Functional Literacy, Education, and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) conducted by the Philippine Statistical Authority (PSA) in 2024, particularly in the case of basic education-age ...
DICT personnel recently conducted a two-day Basic Computer Literacy training to the local government unit of Barangay Tetep-an Sur in Sagada municipality. Hermenegildo C. Castañeda, DICT Mountain ...
BAGUIO CITY (PIA) — The Cordillera Administrative Region has a high literacy rate ranking second in basic literacy and first in functional literacy among all regions in the Philippines, based on the ...