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Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy / Learning | | English term or phrase: Upscaling | * Adults who are upscaling, and currently enrolled in adult education/home study.
This is a single point among other points tackling different levels of students targeted by an educational entity.
The preceding description ends with: "These courses and programs are targeting Emiratis from diverse backgrounds and levels of education, including"
As you will see online the word infers the educational and social levels together. What do you think?
To save your time, this is the def. at TFD: To raise to a higher level; upgrade.
Setting is UAE. I need to know whether the word is more related to social class or educational progress. |
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| | moving up the social ladder | Explanation:
they want to improve their social status
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and so they're educating themselves further to achieve this goal
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the key is in the "upscaling, AND currently" ... the "and" means that one of the ways they are attempting to improve their social status is by increasing their level of education |
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David Hollywood
Local time: 16:56
| Grading comment Thanks for clarification.
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7 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +3 | upscaling moving up the social ladder
Explanation:
they want to improve their social status
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Note added at 8 mins (2010-08-19 11:14:44 GMT)
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and so they're educating themselves further to achieve this goal
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Note added at 32 mins (2010-08-19 11:39:10 GMT)
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the key is in the "upscaling, AND currently" ... the "and" means that one of the ways they are attempting to improve their social status is by increasing their level of education
| | | Grading comment | Thanks for clarification. |
| Notes to answerer
Asker: Many thanks, David.
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