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basic education

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noun

  1. (in India) education in which all teaching is correlated with the learning of a craft

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He also says investment in basic education and skills training should be increased.

From MarketWatch

Fiorella scored at just above an eighth-grade level on a basic education test, according to a transcript of his 2023 parole hearing.

From Los Angeles Times

Even beyond that, I think that basic education in biology would also be helpful.

From Salon

In doing so, the court affirmed that access to basic education is a vital public good—essential not only to individual development, but to the functioning of a democratic society—and that states cannot arbitrarily withhold it from children based on immigration status.

From Slate

The fact that he only had a basic education and spoke broken French and English was "an obstacle to his military career", the Rift Valley Institute said.

From BBC