Monday, December 3, 2012

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Policymakers need to wake up to the education system crisis...

Felix E. Schelling once quoted – ‘True education makes for inequality’, and perhaps rightly so. But today, many countries are too busy with their own political and social issues, such that the contemptible state of education and consequently the exacerbating chasm between the rich and the poor in their own country gets no attention!

The developing countries are the worst victims of such illiteracy driven inequality. Vietnam allocates a miserly 16.2% of its budget to University education and ridiculously, as per the Minister of Education, this problem can only be solved with an “increase in tuition fees”, which will evidently prove a blow to the poor community. In Turkey, only a pathetic 2.6% of infants aged three and four attend school, while the same percentage in more than 50% of other OECD countries stands at a tall 70% or more! In Bulgaria, statistics prove that only 30% of the students succeed in pursuing education beyond the age of 5, and also that education in English Medium is a rarity in the country.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.An Initiative of IIPMMalay Chaudhuri

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