The program is being run by the University's Department of Distance and Non-Formal Continuing Education, and its senior faculty members have voluntarily devoted their services to teach the illiterate employees through a specially designed lesson- plan.The inaugural session was also addressed by the Education Department Dean Dr Nasir Mahmood,
Adult Literacy Department Director Dr Muhammad Ajaml and other faculty members which included Dr Afshan Huma and Dr Aftab Ahmed and others.
The 20th century approach to addressing
adult literacy and numeracy is to focus on the school system, in the belief that a strong school based foundation will set young people up for a lifetime of literacy and numeracy and that second chance or catch up education will be all that is necessary for the handful of adults who miss out on the basics in school.
-Adnan Ghari, Grade 6 volunteer on the
Adult Literacy Programme, Little Flowers School, Dubai.
The programs were based on an 'integrated' concept of
adult literacy (e.g.
National
Adult Literacy Agency director Inez Bailey said: "It is a triumph against difficult circumstances to encourage so many adults back into basic education after they have had bad experiences of school.
The neo-literates were identified with the help of their respective
adult literacy teachers and supervisors.
Federal, state and local governments are charged with the responsibility of organizing and funding
adult literacy programmes.
The Research and Practice in
Adult Literacy (RaPAL) conference, hosted by the University of Wales, Newport, was attended by delegates from the UK, Ireland, Germany, Canada, the USA and Australia.
Estimates were developed using statistical models that related estimated percentages of adults lacking basic literacy skills in counties sampled for the 1992 National
Adult Literacy Survey and the 2003 National Assessment of
Adult Literacy to county characteristics, such as levels of educational attainment.
But now she is becoming something of an avid reader thanks to an
adult literacy programme.
China, South Asia and Africa were among the areas with lowest
adult literacy levels, the report said.
The December 2005 study released by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the National Assessment of
Adult Literacy (NAAL) found that 55% of American adults scored in the lowest 2 levels of quantitative literacy.