The following article communicates the importance of
worldwide education for primary school age children by 2015. Of this segment of
children, 61 million are not in school and half of them are living in only 8
countries. These countries include Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of
Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Nigeria, Yemen, and South Sudan. The dismal
amount of educated youths is being attributed to the factors of inequality such
as where they live, poverty, conflict, gender and ethnicity. But factors differ
for each country and some have made progress in changing their educational
systems. In most low-income countries, more boys than girls attend school. But
thanks to a cash stipend program for girls, Bangladesh has begun to see a
larger female population in their schools. In Nigeria the chance of children
entering or completing primary school depends greatly on their residence and
the wealth of their family. Nigeria has the world’s highest number of
out-of-school children, amounting to 10 million. Statistics from 2008 reveal
that in northeastern Nigeria almost three-quarters of the poorest children aged
7 to 16 had never been to school, while almost every affluent child had.
Factors of regional conflict have a great affect on children in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. In regions of conflict, the richest children have a
similar chance of going to school as those in the major city of the Congo. But
1-in-3 of the poorest children has never been to school and girls make up 44%
of those children. The author believes that the ministers of finance need to
work together with ministers of education in order to mend these disparities.
Education worldwide needs great improvements and the poorest
people in each society are suffering the most when it comes to education. I do
agree with the author in the sense that renovating the educational system takes
the resources and skills of various governmental parties. Income inequality
obviously places the largest role in the division of who receives an education
through school and who doesn’t.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/pauline-rose/inequality-education_b_3106557.html
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