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type-post status-publish format-standard category-sarawak title-above"> <header class="post-header cf"> <div class="heading cf"> <h1 class="post-title item fn"> ‘Greater rural wealth with higher literacy rate’ </h1> <a href="https://www.theborneopost.com/2012/05/14/greater-rural-wealth-with-higher-literacy-rate/#respond" class="comments"><i class="fa fa-comments-o"></i> 0</a> </div> <div class="post-meta cf"> <span class="posted-by">By <span class="reviewer">Yunus Yussop, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fd8f988d928f89988f8ebd8995989f928f9398928d928e89d39e9290">[email protected]</a></span> </span> <span class="posted-on">on <span class="dtreviewed"> <time class="value-title" datetime="2012-05-14T07:04:05+08:00" title="2012-05-14">May 14, 2012, Monday at 7:04 AM</time> </span> </span> <span class="cats"><a href="https://www.theborneopost.com/news/sarawak/" rel="category tag">Sarawak</a></span> </div> </header>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1560491-4' 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aria-describedby="caption-attachment-206375" class="size-full wp-image-206375" title="B0071" src="http://www.theborneopost.com/newsimages/2012/05/B0071.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="306" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-206375" class="wp-caption-text">FOR A GOOD EFFORT: Entulu (second left) presents an award to one of the outstanding participants while others look on.</p></div> <p><strong>BINTULU: </strong>The success of our national education system is measured by the literacy rate of our people.</p> <p>The higher it is in the rural areas, the better it will be for the Dayak community as it helps to shape the development of human capital that contribute to economic, social and political development, says Deputy Minister of Rural and Regional Development Datuk Joseph Entulu Belaun.</p> <p>According to him, in 2007 the literacy rate of adults aged 15 and above was 92.3 per cent and had increased to 96 per cent this year.</p> <p>“In the year 2015, Malaysia is expected to have zero 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The increase of literacy among adults has a positive impact on children’s growth and development.</p> <p>“Parents who encourage their children to read from childhood are a good influence on the attitude of children towards literacy,” he said when officiating at the closing of the state-level Rural Literacy Day 2012 at IKM Bintulu here yesterday.</p> <p>Entulu also stressed that acquiring knowledge was very important in building a knowledgeable and civilised society.</p> <p>“Consequently, a holistic approach is necessary to enable us to react more quickly to a dynamic and competitive global environment. Emphasis should be given to the change in attitude, personal qualities and awareness to develop and achieve goals,” he said.</p> <p>According to him, the level of education determines the economic growth of a country and its productivity.</p> <p>“A study in 50 countries shows that the increase in educational level could increase a country’s Gross Domestic Product by 0.37 per cent.</p> <p>“The Economic Planning Unit’s reports on the New Economic Model stated that most of the workforce in this country consists of low-skilled group, it could be a barrier to the country’s target to be a developed nation by 2020.</p> <p>“It’s clear — the growth of our economy depends on the ability to maintain productivity and high competitiveness. Competitiveness and productivity depend on the availability of educated workers who are knowledgeable, skilled and highly motivated,” he said.</p> <p>As such, he called on the Community Development Department (Kemas) to run its technical and vocational education programmes like sewing and handicraft making aggressively in the rural areas to get more people involved.</p> <p>He revealed that his ministry through Kemas provided pre-school education to children aged four to five years old in kindergartens and day care centres, now upgraded to ‘Taska Permata Kemas’, to those aged two to four years old.</p> <p>In 2010, he said, a total of 500 kindergartens were opened while another 1,000 were built in 2011 and some 1,000 more would be opened this year.</p> <p>“This shows that the government always gives equal emphasises to the education of adults and children,” he said.</p> <p>The Selangau MP also reminded the people that the era of globalisation had brought drastic changes to lifestyles and 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