Sentence examples for skills disadvantaged from inspiring English sources

Middle-class children are far more likely to arrive at school with significant language skills; disadvantaged children, she noted, depend on school much more heavily to learn basic skills and benefit more from direct instruction.

Children of adults with low literacy skills are disadvantaged upon school entrance, which eventuates in a higher probability of dropping out (Kirsch, Jungeblut, Jenkins, & Kolstad, 1993).

"A child who cannot attain core communication skills is really disadvantaged and destined to struggle all the way through life," says Professor Jane Marshall, the joint head of department for language and communication scienc at City University in London, one of 18 universities and colleges offering recognised SLT courses in the UK.

These new findings highlight the potential importance of psychological interventions that strengthen the flexible coping skills of socioeconomically disadvantaged groups.

Special measures should be taken to prevent students who lack computer skills from being disadvantaged or from developing computer-hostile attitudes.

Proequity interventions to improve school entry academic skills of disadvantaged children were estimated to reduce absolute socioeconomic inequality in poor educational achievement between the least and most disadvantaged groups by 15.7% for progressive universal or targeted interventions.

Teaching English to immigrants and basic skills to disadvantaged adults brought her great joy.

Since small and medium enterprises (SMEs) require innovation, entrepreneurship and competition which are important sources of productivity growth, International organization such as UNIDO supports the efforts of developing countries to improve the business environment which will promote domestic entrepreneurship and in particular development of the entrepreneurial skills of disadvantaged groups.

Improving school entry academic skills of disadvantaged children was also estimated to reduce the proportion of children with poor educational outcomes at ages 15 16 by 4.5%.

This flexible approach to training is in operation at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and improves equity in access to postgraduate public health education, especially if it incorporates the teaching of academic skills for disadvantaged students [ 43].

The lack of basic digital skills and access in already disadvantaged areas is likely to lead to an increase in inequality of opportunity around the UK".