Wednesday, March 6, 2013

The change in literacy in the UAE


The UAE illiteracy rate when, the UAE first became a country was high, but nowadays it’s less than 10%. Research shows that students demand fewer reading classes. And now there are classes which are targeted for older people.

At the beginning the illiteracy rate of the UAE population was 75.1% but in 2010-2011 statistics from (SCAD) the Statistics Centre- Abu Dhabi showed that the rate had gone down to 6%.

In 1960-1961 there were no enrolled females in schools but nowadays, the number of males barely outweighs the number of females which is a huge difference from 50 years ago.

SCAD in their report, which included resident older than 10 years old, measured the literacy in English and Arabic but without noting the proficiency in both Arabic and English in schools. 2010-2011 reports mentioned the number of 306,497 pupils in 480 schools, of which 299 are government schools.  
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