SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Functional Illiteracy, Compulsory Education, Business Engineering
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Education education: the social institution through which a society provides its members with important knowledge, including basic facts, job skills, and cultural norms and values schooling: formal institutions under the direction of specially trained teachers. Schooling and the economic development link in low-and middle-income countries, people learn at home and reflect the national culture little opportunity to go to school, dependent on child"s income. More than 270 publicly funded post-secondary institutions (70 universities) functional illiteracy: reading and writing skills insufficient for daily living official illiteracy is low in canada, but there are concerns with the functional literacy of adults. 15. 2% of canadians (15+ years of age) had university degrees in 2001. Access to higher education higher education is the path to occupational achievement. Canadian census 2001 reveals that young women are more highly educated than young men o o. 25% of men and 38% of women obtain at least a college diploma.