The phrase "acquiring and improving" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the processes of gaining new skills or knowledge and enhancing existing ones.
Example: "The workshop focuses on acquiring and improving essential skills for personal and professional development."
Alternatives: "gaining and enhancing" or "learning and refining".
But it is not just buildings we are acquiring and improving, we have upgraded the public realm in Mount Street, Mayfair and Belgravia's Elizabeth Street by widening the pedestrian area and removing the clutter of unnecessary signs".
A year later Miller pulled out of the U.K. and began acquiring and improving hospitals in the U.S., focusing on medium-size cities with fast-growing populations.
Acquiring and improving knowledge on student populations is a crucial factor in the development of health promotion programs in order to meet students' needs and to help them cope.
DEERE & CO., Moline, Ill., said it would buy the rest of Nortrax Inc., a company that acquires and improves John Deere dealerships, from Credit Suisse First Boston Equity Partners for about $167 million.
The standard interpretation is that H.M. was able to acquire and improve motor skills, even though he could not retain knowledge of facts.
"There was little value to sharing this knowledge and your people with companies you might acquire and improve, as opposed to them acquiring your people and improving themselves," said Mr. Koenigsaecker, who is the author of "Leading the Lean Enterprise Transformation" and is still a shareholder.
This result highlights the importance given by students to those skills that, although not been initially held, can be acquired and improved through a training process.
Oosterbeek et al. (2010) use market awareness, creativity and flexibility as variables that define entrepreneurial skills and state that skills differ from traits in that skills can be acquired and improved through different programs and therefore can change over time.
This holds true for all dimensions of language proficiency, however, the comprehension of written texts is one of the most important academic skills for students to acquire and improve (Edele and Stanat 2016; Urquhart and Weir 2013).
Our findings demonstrate that training comprising 25 procedural repetitions is easily sufficient to achieve optimal image quality, and they also provide empiric knowledge toward elucidating the times and minimum repetitions needed to acquire and improve ultrasonographic technique in novice operators to a level which fulfills quality requirements for interpretation.
