illiterate


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Synonyms for illiterate

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Synonyms for illiterate

not able to read or write

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uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning

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lacking culture, especially in language and literature

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"Despite the large percentage of women who are illiterate, Egypt has achieved otable success in closing the educational gap, and most education statistics tend to favour women," accoridng to the NCW.
She is hoping Education4All will become a "foundation stone" for illiterate children in developing countries to learn about the world.
'I would like to take the driving test to obtain a tuk-tuk driving licence because I work in the transport sector, but I am illiterate so I cannot pass the theory part of the exam.
Neil claimed that after a decade of SNP rule, a fifth of Scots leave primary school "functionally illiterate".
These are those factors which decrease growth rate of govt organizations like you can witness PIA especially, in turns increases the unemployment and also increases the amount of illiterates in your govt's machinery.
Minister of Education and Culture Muhadjir Effendy said that Indonesia had exceeded the target number of illiterates set by UNESCO, which is at least 5 percent.
These finances will go a long way, especially for thousands of working-age Filipinos who remain illiterate. Since they cannot read and write, they can only do menial jobs, which can easily be automated and leave them jobless and poor.
Despite all these efforts, she said millions of children of age cohort 9-14 and adults were illiterate and was a major reason of low literacy rate of the country which could not be addressed through formal education system.
In fact, the underprivileged, which make up most of the illiterate population in Pakistan, depend more on the government for service delivery than the privileged elite who are able to pave roads for themselves, instal generators, and afford private education.
First: The Universities Supreme Council's decision on obligating each student to teach up to eight illiterate people will be activated.
This is the only district on the map of world which has given two noble laureates including Dr Abdul Salam and Dr Gobi Singh but it is such landscape that it has always remained under occupation of illiterate political leadership.;
Illiterate Apostles: Uneducated Early Christians and the Literates Who Loved Them
They said, NFLP depends on 6 concepts those are Budget, Saving, Utilization of Money, Managing Debt, Financial Institution and Consumers Rights and Responsibilities, NFLP tells the whole process of how can we become prosper by using our assets with pure planning, trainers told a Story of a poor family who is financially illiterate, but after getting the knowledge of how to plan for earning money and utilizing it properly the family becomes prosper after some time.
Twenty four percent were illiterate, 8% were primary, 24% were middle, 28% were matric and 16% were graduates.