6 World Education Blog

With the daily challenges posed by economic difficulty and other threats, governments in developing countries are working very hard to ensure that their educational institutions continue to provide a standard of education that can make its citizens at part with the educated people in more economically sound countries. To a certain extent, these Third World countries have succeeded in their crusade for quality education. The problem is that a good education comes with a price and it is often a price that many people in Third World countries are not able to pay. So, although quality education is available, it is still unreachable for a large segment of a developing country’s population.

Certainly, it is impressive to see that developing countries have educational institutions that are world-class and which offer education that can rival that provided by wealthier nations around the world. There is a clear recognition of the role that education plays in overcoming hardship and poverty. However elusive it may be, a good education is still viewed as the best way to a better life.

Among the developing countries that have superb educational systems are such “emerging markets” as Mexico, India, Brazil, Turkey, the Philippines, Egypt, South Africa, Malaysia, Thailand, much of South America and several of the Persian Gulf Arab States.

Obviously, the poorest of the poor in these countries will have a hard time getting into the best schools in their vicinity. Of course, there are always scholarship programs available but these are few. Besides, people at the lowest spectrum of the economic scale are more concerned with more pressing issues related to their mere survival such as where to find food and money for clothing and shelter. After these basic needs are met, that is the only time that parents can really focus on their children’s schooling. In fact, studies indicate that once their basic economic needs are met, the first priority of most poor families is how to send their children to a good school.

India recently launched EDUSAT, an educational program aimed at giving quality education to even its poorest citizens. Among the group’s first initiatives is the development of a $100 laptop which the government hopes to distribute by 2007 to public schools all over the country.

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global education has to day become GLO-CAL.we have to locally solve the problems which have global concerns.each sociological context needs to be taken into account.

inclusive education is an offshoot of unescos efforts to make education a right,based on human rights,to be justicieable to any citizen of the world.The poor as well as the rich need to be included.  quality should be taken care of .quantity in the context of developing countries and third world countries  need to be provided  on available and affordable priorities.The govts in power should include education in their policy agenda and  NOT leave it to private lobbying only.Quality should be their integrated or strategic  approach.Govts should include the rich and private barons should cater to quantity and inclusiveness Skill needs to be nurtured without any caste ,gender,rural/urban bias. Wth internal mobility among institutions and courses.a student of sceince can opt music as his topic of study and a rural boy uninhibited by his linguistic or social shortcomings should be able to dabble in a technological field because of his innate indiegenous .skill. This can be taken as the next vision of glo-cal education.

All over the world education is being considered  a non merit goods and govts in power are providing a meagre percentage to education in their annual budgets.The problem facing is that of incusiveness.if they are to thrive they have to strive to cater to the needs of all.Funding Iecause of lesser and lesser  allocation is a constraInt. infrastructure is in its minimal.Merit and quality suffer.if the move IS towards quantity This they cant afford.Hence the three terms inclusiveness ,quality and quantity have to be srategically and locally addressed.Quantity- inclusive -quality marking and picking skillfull students has to be focussed and promoted .More than primary/secondary education ,it is  in the field of tertiary education the 3 need to be focussed ,as thie sector of education acts as a succour to the other two.

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