... Student ID : 11478318 Lecturer : Margaret Redestowicz Education in Developing Countries Article 1: Singh, S., Bankole, A., & Woog, V. (2005) “Evaluating the need for sex education in developing countries: sexual behaviour, knowledge of preventing sexually transmitted infections/HIV and unplanned pregnancy” . Sex Education,Vol. 5 Issue 4, p307-331, 25p In this article Singh et al., review a deep sight into the degree of need for necessary knowledge of sex education in developing countries. This article has three main points. First, it pointed out the major factors which impact how sex education can be instructed and brought advantages for young generation in developing countries. Further, it also mention about evidence on particular key indicators of behaviours and understanding amongst young generations in sub- Saharan Africa, Latin America and Caribbean. Singh et al. has classified the information separately for young men and women. At last, the evidence has been used to emphasize the nature and extend of need for young teenage in sex education. Therefore, this article brings the better view of range and the limitation of missing sex education in developing countries. Further, it is clearly to bring the readers some knowledge about healthy sexual activities and preventing the harmful or unplanned consequences. However, there is one limitation...
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...Chris Wysong Econ 110 10/25/2013 Main Response Paper Technology and Education in the Developing Countries of Africa Both technology and education play a key role in how a country stands out amongst the rest and how developed that country is. Without out them, the country can never advance into the stage of being able to qualify themselves as a developed country, such as those found in Europe, North and South America and some in Asia. These “developed” countries have these benefits of using technology such as the internet, cell phones, and scientific innovations whenever they need too and abundant education opportunities to expand ones knowledge with the hopeful benefit of getting a higher paying/better job. However this is where the developing countries, especially countries in Africa, struggle. The benefit of technology and education isn’t just around the corner for Africa, rather it’s barely within a hands reach for one to use. Because of this, many problems will ensue for these African nations. Without the full use of technology and education, African countries may never know the benefits of having such medical treatments, the expanded international network from the internet and cellular devices, and a more educated population. Medicine has been, literally speaking, a life-saver for millions upon millions of people. It has helped us overcome many different sicknesses and diseases and has also increased the life expectancy of the human race substantially. Without it...
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...Sustainable Development of Higher Education Institutions in Developing Countries I. Introduction Education is an economically and socially productive investment and in the majority of the both industrialised and developing countries, it is funded mainly by the government (Psacharopoulos, 1986). The expansion of education received by individuals depends both on their and governments’ fiscal resources (Barr, N., 2008). In recent years, however, the world financial-economic crises and adverse macroeconomic conditions have reduced most government’s ability to continue expanding quantity of educational institutions, improving quality of education and widening access, all subject to a fiscal constraint. At the same time, the potential contributions of students and their families are limited by the current financial arrangements (Albrecht & Ziderman, 1995). The result is underinvestment in education, particularly in higher education. However, more investment in human capital will lead to higher economic growth rates and that the rates of return on these investments for both government and private individuals would be very profitable (Steyn and Villiers, 2006). Most empirical studies by several researchers, such as Barr, N. (2008); Johnstone, B. & Marcucci, P. (2010); Psacharpoulos, G. & Partinos, H. A. (2004); and Sam, M. (2011) reveal that higher education has expended significantly in the last quarter century in most of the developing countries, but this expansion has not...
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...Effects of globalization in education Nowadays no one can ignore the importance of education to society. Education is a tool that will allow people to achieve every goal they set for their lives. Learning opens doors to a great world of possibilities that will most likely lead to success. People who are not fortune enough to receive a formal education will have to face a road full of difficulties throughout their lives. It is not a secret that the more education people have, the better standard of living they will enjoy. Globalization has brought an innumerable amount of positive and negative changes to the world. One of those aspects that has been affected by those changes is, without any doubt, education. Globalization has more positive than negative effects in education and the way it is delivered in both developed and developing countries. One positive effect that globalization has brought to education is the fast development in educational technology. A massive technological impact can be observed when comparing today’s classrooms and classrooms from some years ago. This impact is transforming the way the students learn and is equipping them with a variety of skills to confront a competitive global market that is demanding workers that are prepared to assume roles according to the organization’s requirements. Day by day we can see how vanguard technology is entering the classrooms. Smart boards, laptops, NEOs, video projection screens, on-line libraries, and classroom...
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...Sources of Finance Projected Profit and Loss References Pages 2 2 2 3 4 4 4 5 5 6 6 6 6 7 8 1 Team 53 Executive Summary INNOVATE Education and Training is a global education company that provides general education and formal skills training solutions to people at low income levels, living in less developed countries around the world. INNOVATE will supply basic portable DVD players, or PDPs, at very low cost to communities and individuals who require education and skills training to aid in their development and welfare. The implementation of an ongoing educational DVD distribution program, using the PDPs as the medium through which education and skills training programs can be delivered to its users, will make up the second element of INNOVATE’s range of product and service offerings. By leveraging alliances and partnerships with governments and other large multinational companies around the world, INNOVATE will be able to utilize a profitable business model, which at the same time will have the potential to benefit millions of people in developing countries. Business Overview Business Opportunity Importance of Education For many years, education has been widely regarded as the means to economic prosperity, the key to combating unemployment, and the route to scientific and technological advancement for developing...
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...low-power, connected laptop” (www.one.laptop.org) Nicholas Negroponte has a vision to launch the education movement that would help alleviate poverty by connecting children in developing countries to the rest of the world. Therefore, he described OLPC “is an education project, not a laptop project” (Quelch, 2008). Problems facing by OLPC OLPC offers a laptop which is low power requirement, preventing water or sand or dirt damage, open source software, unique interface, and possibility for solar power and hand-crank powering lost cost (Quelch, 2008). These terms for an innovative, unique laptop seem bound for success (Davison, 2008). The $100 laptop should be experiencing growth in developing countries. However, some developing countries are reluctant to develop OLPC laptop, and some have cancelled planned purchases (Kraemer, Dedrick & Sharma, 2009). Meanwhile, the OLPC organization (www. olpc.com) struggles with key staff defections, budget cuts, mission disillusionment, high cost of OLPC laptop, difficult to sell to developing countries and unexpected aggressive competitors’ threats. These obstacles faced by OLPC indicate OLPC might not provide a new tool for children in developing countries and cannot profitably reach millions of poor children in developing countries. Here, we have to ask some questions: Is the vision still viable? How can OLPC sell 5 million laptops to developing countries? How can they overcome the design and cost challenges? How do they effectively deal with competitors’...
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...always carries with it the dilemma of whether it is good or bad for the all the countries taking part in this integration; regardless of this dilemma, globalization is happening right now and it is unstoppable, it has its benefits as well as its problems and one of the problems, although there is no empirical evidence, is that globalization raises child labour. Economic globalization unifies the economies of the world by reducing international trade barriers such as export fees, import quotas, tariffs through free trade agreements like NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), as well as foreign investment, among others. However, this integration between developed and developing countries has increased the demand for labour in third world countries in sectors such as agriculture, food processing, textiles and this demand has increased the wages of their workers; which has prompted the need for cheap labour in other words child labour. In this paper I will examine the arguments on how globalization raises child labour as well as how globalization can actually be used to reduce child labour. Globalization can affect developing countries through the labour market by increasing trades, export sales, and foreign investment, all these factors have an impact on employment and salaries [2]; globalization increases the uneducated labour force wages to that of the educated work force in developing countries, therefore increasing the supply on the uneducated labour force, which is where...
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...OF INDIGENOUS CUSTOMARY EDUCATION PRINCIPLES IN THE FORMULATION OF SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION POLICY BOAZ Paper presented at the Fourth International Special Education Congress, Birmingham, 10-13 April 1995 University of Manchester School of Education April 1995 THE RELEVANCE OF INDIGENOUS CUSTOMARY EDUCATION PRINCIPLES IN THE FORMULATION OF SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION POLICY Joseph Kisanji INTRODUCTION The Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education adopted at the World Conference on Special Needs Education in June 1994 reaffirmed commitment of the world community to “Education for All” and urged governments to “give the highest policy and budgetary priority to improve their education systems to enable them to include all children regardless of individual differences and difficulties”. The United Nations (1994) in its “Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities” urges Member States in Rule Number 6 to ensure special needs education “is an integral part of the education system”. These statements in support of the “Education for All” campaign which was given the blessing of the international community at the 1990 Jomtien Conference provide broad guidelines for national and local action. However, national governments have to unpack the guidelines to make "Education for All" a practical reality...
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...EDUCATION QUALITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH Education Quality and Economic Growth Education Quality and Economic Growth Eric A. Hanushek Ludger Wößmann THE WORLD BANK Washington, DC © 2007 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank 1818 H Street NW Washington DC 20433 Telephone: 202-473-1000 Internet: www.worldbank.org E-mail: feedback@worldbank.org All rights reserved 1 2 3 4 5 10 09 08 07 This volume is a product of the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this volume do not necessarily reflect the views of the Executive Directors of The World Bank or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in this work do not imply any judgement on the part of The World Bank concerning the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Rights and Permissions The material in this publication is copyrighted. Copying and/or transmitting portions or all of this work without permission may be a violation of applicable law. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank encourages dissemination of its work and will normally grant permission to reproduce portions of the work promptly. For permission to photocopy...
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...International Education (CIE) as a course. The Comparative and International Education is considered as a global, cross cultural, and transdisciplinary curriculum that prepares its graduates to work in and with schools – both locally and internationally – as agents of change in classrooms, schools, and educational systems as a whole. Comparative and International Education as a course is considered vital because it prepares educators like myself to analyze, assess, and evaluate educational practice, policies in wide variety of social and educational settings. It also promotes a broad understanding of educational institutions, systems and their programs/curricula. Comparative education examines how countries plan for the expansion, upgrade, and improvement of their educational system. It imparts a wider understanding on the origins of the challenges within and outside the school system, providing us the opportunity to create and explore solutions on the said challenges. Moreover, the study in comparative and international education prepares researchers, teachers, and planners who are interested in education across nations and cultures. Various modes of inquiry and the intellectual orientations of several disciplines are used to investigate, from a comparative and/or cross-cultural perspective, the following aspects of education in one or more geographical regions of the world: educational change and modernization, the interaction between education and development...
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... Using Developing Nations as a Resource for International Business Thanks to the versatility of technology and the increased demand for skilled workers the populace in developing nations has become a valuable and cultivatable resource for international business. In fact, there are very few aspects of their lives which have no interaction with developed nation technology and businesses. These people are potentially a very valuable asset for the international business community, as they represent not only a vast, mostly untapped, consumer group but also a source of plentiful, cheap labor. From their earliest moments the international community has begun integrating into their world to educate, train and eventually employ them to create the goods and services the developed nation’s desire. If that wasn’t comprehensive enough, these developing nations are also seen as a research and development (R&D) location where products are launched in order to be tested and refined for sale at a later date in more developed countries globally. International businesses are investing time and funds in nearly every aspect of these nations’ ongoing development, in part, to further their own aim and increase their profitability. Before they are even born one of a multiple of international businesses may have already touched their life through supplementary healthcare, or health screening fort their pregnant mother. Among these many outreach programs for healthcare in developing nations you...
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...social systems. It is the goal for developing nations to mature and become stable contributing members of the global community and economy. In human development, part of becoming an adult is gaining the ability to be self-sufficient and having the confidence to continue to be so. Once again if we apply this idea to the development of nations, part of developing is becoming a nation that is sustainably self-sufficient. Obviously the development of third world countries is vastly different from human development, but if you look at the factors that contribute to successful human develop you can generalize them to fit with the development of nations. Whether talking about the development of a human being or a nation, almost everyone would agree that there are fundamental elements that ensure success. Those elements are proper nutrition, good health, education, positive reinforcement and confidence, ability to take care of one’s self, and stability. Michael P Todaro and Stephen C. Smith define the traditional view of development as “the capacity of a national economy, whose initial economic condition has been more or less static for a long time, to generate and sustain and annual increase in its gross national income (GNI) at rate of 5% to 7% ore more.” (14) As Todaro and Smith point out, this definition of development excludes several factors of great significance. This definition rest solely on the basis that an increase in a developing...
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...Week 5 Discussion 08/04/2014 "Education" Please respond to the following: * Based on the lecture and Webtext materials, address the following: * Thus far, we have learned that obtaining an education does not appear to be a high priority in the developing world. Suggest at least two (2) reasons why education should be a priority in the developing world. Next, propose significant overall strategies - aside from building more schools - which those in leadership positions in developing countries may use in order to help their people escape poverty through education. The two (2) reasons I believe why education should be a priority are: It will increase the chances that educated citizens will take care of their families in the future. The more educated they become the better future their family will have and improving their quality of life. Education reduces poverty. Education also promotes health. Women with a secondary education are far likely to be aware of the measures for preventing spreading HIV to other and their unborn children. They will also have healthier children decreasing the infant mortality rates. They will also increase their own life span by at least 30 to 40 more years, I propose that developing countries who require aid must use more than half of the aid for education, healthcare and job training. If the countries that requesting the aid does not comply, they forfeit the opportunity to receive the aid for countries who are willing to help. The need...
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...Empowering Women Deanna Lindsey Sociology of Developing Countries 28 May 2012 Why is it important that we empowering women in developing society? Why is it important that women are empowering in any society? How has empowering women change societies and the economic landscape of these countries? Why some countries have been slow to empower women in their countries? This paper will address these questions and other areas as it relates to the empowerment of women. Empowering means “To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority”. So when you hear the phrase “empowering women” what comes to mind? Initially I had no clue, it was until I read articles that I fully understood what it meant. Political empowerment, Economic empowerment, and Social empowerment is what empowering women is all about. I’ve only listed a few of the categories, but some countries and or societies treat them as mutually exclusive to women. The first article I read emphasis the importance’s of education among women. Educating women would be one of the first steps toward empowerment. Education helps with social development and improves your well-being. Yet there are still place that excluded young girls from a formal education. The benefits of women being educated greatly outweigh them being illiterate. With education empowerment among women; they better informed on health matters which can lead to deduction in population and child mortality rates. Educated...
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...in the Less Developed Countries (LDC) say nothing about women’s issues. In the past decade different organizations focused around women have heightened awareness of how women play an important role in the political and economic development. Women are significant to the success of family planning programs, bear much of the responsibility for food production and account for an increasing share of wage labor in developing countries. Women are very aware of the consequences of environmental degradation and can contribute to the development of a vibrant, civil society and good governance. In spite of their important contributions, women lag behind men in access to health care, nutrition, and education while continuing to face difficult social, economic, and political barriers. Women’s lives in the developing world are consistently hard. Often female children are less valuable than male children, resulting in higher female infant and child death rates. Gender Inequalities: Sociological View Gender is a dimension of social organization, shaping how we interact with others and how we think about ourselves. Gender also involves hierarchy, ranking men and women differently in terms of power, wealth, and other resources. That is why sociologists speak of gender stratification, the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women. Gender also affects the opportunities and challenges we face throughout our lives (Macionis, 2010). Countries such as Africa, Pakistan...
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