The association felt it needed someone with formal training to run their school.

CNN: Grambling State University

For example, ATEK literacy programme graduates, Wilfredo Apaza and Marisol Martinez, completed formal secondary education and teacher training courses and have now been recruited by a local bilingual school to teach religion and literacy in Quechua.

UNESCO: ATEK Reading Comprehension

It gave me the confidence to work as a middle school science teacher in a Mexican barrio in San Diego, California even though I had no formal education training or experience with the culture.

WHITEHOUSE: Serving the United States Through AmeriCorps

Considering the fact that many of inmates have never attended formal schooling, do not hold school-leaving certificates or have been low performers, the provision of such educational training and programmes in prison carries significant meaning.

UNESCO: M��nster Prison Library

Young children have been helped to acquire basic literacy skills before being enrolled into the formal primary school system while, on the other hand, youths and adults have benefitted from basic literacy and vocational skills training.

UNESCO: Community Library and Resource Centres