Benefits of good quality school education accrue only when students complete and leave school after having acquired the gateway skills. Like one learns to walk before running similarly one picks up advance skills. The only after picking the basic foundational skills. The advent of the knowledge economy poses new of having an uneducated workforce will be our inability level, keep pace with the global economy. Without a strong learning foundation at the primary level, there can be no improvement in higher education or skill development.

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