Global Issues: Education Worldwide

Education Worldwide

Education can be thought of as the transmission of the values and accumulated knowledge of a society. In this sense, it is equivalent to what social scientists term socialization or enculturation. (Read more)

▪ Actual World Situation 

As a result of poverty and marginalization, more than 72 million children around the world remain unschooled.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the most affected area with over 32 million children of primary school age remaining uneducated. (Read more)

▪ Latest Human Development Report

▪ Causes of Lack of Education 

▪ A lack of founding for education: 
The amount of total aid that’s allocated to education has decreased in each of the past six years, and education aid is 4% lower than it was in 2009. (Read more)

▪ Poverty: For many of the poorest families, school remains too expensive and children are forced to stay at home doing chores or work themselves. Families remain locked in a cycle of poverty that goes on for generations.
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▪ War: Almost 50 million children and young people living in conflict areas are out of school, more than half of them primary age, and reports of attacks on education are rising, according to figures published on Friday.
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▪ Exclusion of children with disabilities: Governments in Australia, New Zealand and the UK are failing children with disabilities by not providing necessary learning support and by allowing issues to permeate without intervening.
Schools are deliberately disregarding disability standards through rejecting school places, denying the opportunity of access to activities and offering minimal, if any, support to children with disabilities.
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▪ Gender Inequality: “Only around 30 per cent of all girls worldwide have made it to secondary education and more than 66 per cent of all university students are male"
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▪ Natural Disasters: Natural disasters, such as floods and typhoons, forced 4.5 million people around the world to leave their homes in the first half of 2017 .
They included hundreds of thousands of children whose education has been stopped or disrupted due to schools being severely damaged or destroyed by the extreme weather conditions.
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 ▪ Child Labor: In India, from the population growth, there are more and more people in the country who are illiterate and are in a state of poverty. This leads to child labour. Further, there are more than sixty million children in India who are working under child labour.
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▪ Lack of Sanitation: A broader concern is that the absence of school latrines potentially exposes pubescent-age girls to every-day threats of verbal and physical harassment at school, with potential consequences for female educational attainment.
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▪ Population Growth: “The rapid population growth estimated at 3.5 per cent per annum is putting pressure on the existing resources and facilities. We need to do something to control this population growth. It is our duty, all of us, to advocate for lower population growth,”
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