...The Advantages and Disadvantages of Compulsory Education. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Compulsory Education. Over the course of history the purpose and definition of compulsory education has changed many times; from being a part of the American dream to being a political tool, compulsory always seems to change with the times. At its best compulsory education provided valuable services to children and families that added value to their lives. At its worst it compulsory education would ensure that education would be devoid of religious or political influence that immigrants would bring with them from their home countries. Today compulsory education appears to be a crutch that removes the accountability of parents for providing a strong educational foundation for their children. To determine which outweighs the other we must not only define compulsory education. We must also determine its purpose. Today compulsory education is defined as “…a period of educational attendance required of all students. The period of compulsory education is often determined by the student’s age. In the U.S., schooling is compulsory for all children. The age range for which school attendance is required varies from state to state. Some states allow students to leave school between the ages of 14–17 before finishing high school only with parental permission. In some other states, students are required to stay in school until age 18.” (US Legal Definitions) The original on the other...
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...the UK are: having more referendums, lowering the voting age, making voting compulsory and finally the use of digital democracy. And this essay will assess all the measures and also it will determine which measure is the best to improve democracy in the UK. The first measure, which has been suggested to improve democracy in the UK, is the use of more referendums. A referendum is a popular vote where the people are asked to determine an important political or constitutional issue directly. A referendum has pros and cons. Firstly referendums are a device of direct democracy, which gives the general public direct and unmediated control over the governments decision making, this ensures that the public’s views and interests are always taken account of and are not distorted by politicians who claim to “represent them”. Another advantage is that referendums actually help to create a better informed, more educated and more politically engaged electorate, which gives the members of the public a strong incentive to cast there vote. Also another advantage is that referendums reduce the power of the government, because the government has less control over their outcome than it does over parliament, and therefore citizens are protected against the danger of over mighty government. And a final advantage to referendums is that there is always a clear-cut answer either yes or no. However there are disadvantages to referendums as well such as the general public which is usually ill informed...
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...It is generally agreed today that national service is compulsory for each SPM leaver. National service was first started around the year of 2004. The SPM leavers are randomly selected to enter the national service. As directed by the Ministry of Education of Malaysia,it is compulsory for each selected youth to participate in this programme. Actions will be taken if they do not participate in it. I personally agreed that compulsory national service is good for the youth. One must admit that national service can bring so much benefits for them. Let us start by considering the facts. The youth can fill up their time by participating in the national service. They can benefit their free time after their SPM exam with lots of activities arranged in the programme. Rather that loitering around, doing window shoppings, watching television, the youths can participate in many fun activities during the national service. They will not waste their time doing some useless activities. During the activities in national service, they will gain lots of knowledge, improve their health, gain new friends, and many more. Time is gold. So,the youths should always rember that time is so precious for them to fill it with useful activities. Furthemore,we should not forget that by participating in national service, the youths will receive a lot of experiences. During the programme, they will be taught by many experienced teachers. Maybe, some youths from urban-background have no camping experience...
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...in post-compulsory education and training are discouraged workers who would be in employment if jobs were available. However, the vanishing youth labour market is not the sole reason for the upward extension of education. This trend has been in process throughout the twentieth century. There has been a generation ratchet effect: every generation of parents wants its children to at least equal and preferably exceed its own educational attainments. Hence the progressively rising levels of educational aspiration which, in recent years, have interacted with the decline in job opportunities. (Roberts, 1997 pp.148-149) 1. Are any of these NOT acceptable as a paraphrase of the first sentence? a) A percentage of young people in post-compulsory education and training would prefer to be working but are unable to find jobs. b) Some young people who are in post-compulsory education and training are disappointed employees who would prefer to have jobs if employment was available. “Some young people who enrol in post-compulsory education (and training) are discouraged workers who would rather be in employment if jobs were available.” This one is too close to the original: it follows exactly the same sentence structure and changes only a few vocabulary items (and some of these changes are simply swapping around the position of certain words). c) If there were sufficient jobs, some of the young people in post-compulsory education and training...
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...Salient Features of K-12 History of K-12 The K-12 education system is the public education system that most people are familiar with today. Comprised of 13 grades, kindergarten through 12th, it refers to the public school system in all of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and parts of Europe as well. It is difficult to pinpoint the exact history of education, as it has been occurring in some form for centuries in all parts of the world. Kindergarten was actually developed prior to compulsory education. Though it is not compulsory in all states, children are required to start school in most states at the age of six. If the child is too young to start kindergarten the year he turns five, kindergarten may technically be required since he will be turning six that school year. The word kindergarten is of German origin and means “children’s garden.” The concept was the brainchild of Friedrich Froebel, a self-educated philosophical teacher, who sought to develop a place of guided play for children to “bloom.” The first kindergarten established in England was in 1852, and the United States followed by establishing its first in 1856. Though education was required of all children in Massachusetts by that time and many other states were following suit, not all schools provided, nor required, kindergarten. Similarly, not all schools required a student to stay in school beyond a certain grade, as compulsory education initially applied only to elementary aged children. Many...
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...equity refers to equal access, opportunities, and expectations in education for all persons, irrespective of their backgrounds or status. As a democratic nation, the United States offers a system of "universal" and free public education as a primary mechanism for providing equal educational access and opportunities to all persons, for preparing its people for civic participation in society, and for the socialization of immigrants. The basic premise of public schooling in our school district is that students at all grade levels are entitled to equal learning opportunities irrespective of advantages, disadvantages, or liabilities linked to skin color, ethnicity, disability, or socioeconomic status. An open system of public education serves as a key compensatory strategy to minimize individual differences and to equalize potential achievements and life outcomes for all. To achieve this end, attendance in public schools became compulsory in most states by the start of the 20th century. Specifically, the words equality and equity have different meanings. Equity speaks to public actions and policies in the cause of fairness and social justice. It requires a sufficient distribution of social resources to rectify initially unequal conditions for different groups of people. Equal access to educational opportunity has been a central issue of legal, educational, and social debates since the landmark Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1954. Affirmative action policies...
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...Advantage of franchising – Subway In engaging a franchise business, one will face the pros and cons from the business they operate. There are a lot of benefits prospective franchisees can get from Subway the company provides their franchisees with assistances before and after they open a Subway restaurant. Services provided before opening include an intensive 2-week training, site selection, restaurant design, equipment ordering, and access to product formulas & operational systems. And services provided after opening include, in-depth operations manual, field support, franchise services, research and development, and continuing education (Subway Franchise Training & Investment, Subway Help & Support, n.d.). Apart from the many benefits derived from the cooperation between Subway and the franchisee, there are some more advantages for potential franchisees in buying a franchise business (Franchising 101, 2005), for examples, franchisees can enjoy the advantage of well-established trademark and name recognition of the franchise business. Fred DeLuca, the founder of Subway created the principles which all the ‘Subway’ restaurants needed to follow. High quality, fresh food and customer satisfaction were main things which the franchises needed to keep up. And in 1978, Subway’s success was followed by the opening of its 100th store. The company’s rule in which the bread that was used should be baked in the restaurant itself. This helped increase Subway’s reputation and...
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...covering international trade and also increases communication speed. The four phases in the phase model of globalization are, exporting, cooperative contracts, strategic alliances and wholly owned affiliates. (McWilliams 2010) The word export means shipping the goods and services anywhere out of the boundaries of a country. The one who ships the item is known as ‘exporter’ and the overseas buyer is known as an ‘importer’. Exporting is been increasing ever since globalization began. It is estimated that in today’s globalized world the value of global trade in form of exports and imports is expected to be more that $12 trillion. World trade has grown at more rapid rate than world productivity. (BusinessVictoria 2008). There are many advantages of exporting, two of them are it increases sales and profit. Removing the trade barriers allows a company, organisation or an individual to serve their goods and services to a wider reach in different nations. Expand Life Cycle of Product....
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...The impact of globalization in Japan "Globalization implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with the free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers"(Businessdictionary.com:1931). As the development of technology, connect between each different countries become easier, more and more countries can be easy communication or trade with other countries in many different fields, for instance economic, cultural education and other fields, that can make these countries develop fast. The globalization becomes more and more important to each country, no matter development country or developing country. As we know, after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Japan become a highly globalized country on many fields, like economy, science and technology, education and many other fields. This essay will introduce about the impact of globalization on economic, culture and education of Japan, analyze the impact of globalization on these fields. "The economy of Japan is the third largest national economy in the world after the United States and the People’s Republic of China and is the world's second largest developed economy" (Oecd-ilibrary:2012). As we know, Japan is not a country has a vast land and rich resources, especially whole country economy almost destroyed by World War II. The globalization is the most important reason can help developing economy of Japan so fast, there are some...
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...Questionnaire on Critical evaluation of Primary School Curriculum Name: Department: Q1. In your opinion for the children of grades (I to III) who generally belongs to the age Group of (7-9) have immature minds. They take a little more time then elder children to understand the basic concepts of the subject included in the primary school curriculum for example Science, Social studies, Mathematics e.t.c is it the right decision to bombard their fresh minds with all of these subjects all at once? YES NO Q2. As it is a cleared fact that every thing has got advantages along with disadvantages as well. Do you think it is appropriate to introduce the usage and functions of computers at an early stage of primary education which is included in the respective curricula. 1.Helpful and progressive for them. 2.Injurious to their physical and mental health (As in they get attached to computer games More than physical games) Q3 The culture of memorizing text from curriculum books is due to : 1.Lack of interest of children towards subject given. 2.Extra burden of home assessments and exams on children. Q4. Is the primary school curriculum successful in achieving its general goal to create the Sense Of citizenship in community, country and world till now? YES NO Q5. How successful is the primary school curriculum in developing basic language and ...
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...Before twentieth century, education was not universal, so it is considered as a luxury thing for the upper class children. By twentieth century, compulsory education was established by law in almost all states, and by 1960, the number of young adults with a diploma approached 50 percent. There are three big views of education; functionalist view, conflict view, and symbolic interactionist view. The functionalist view answers the question of ‘Why does an education institution exist in the first place? What does it do for society?’. The functions of education are socialization, occupational training, and social control. The conflict theory concentrate on the competition between groups for power, income, and social status, giving special attention to the prevailing importance of institutions in the conflict. Conflict theorists argue that educational level is a mechanism for producing and re-producing inequality in our society. The symbolic interaction focuses on what arises from the operation of the interaction process during the schooling experience. Through the operation of the expectancy effect, the expectations can create the very behavior in question. Generally, the higher a person's occupational status, the more formal education he or she is likely to have received. They are connected with gender. The average income for women is less than the average income for men at each educational level. And they are also connected with social class background. Cognitive ability...
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...Case study – Spanning the globe, Allen D. Engle, Sr. Introduction Eric Christopher was the Associate Director for Global HR Development at Tex-Mark. He got a very good education in Europe, he travelled a lot around the world and he could speak many languages as well. Tex-Mark was a firm in the printer and optical scanner industry. It had international production facilities. Eric had two meetings: one with the Plant Engineer (Fred) and one with the Director. Eric knew also the plans that the company wanted costs cut and the Vice President for HR wants this by having cheaper training programs, shorter expatriate assignments and a faster appointment of HCNs. At the first meeting, Eric realized that Fred’s team did not relate well to their Mexican counterparts and Tex-Mark did not treat the local and national government agencies with enough respect and sensitivity. Although, it seemed that Fred will get a good position in India, but in the last minute, another candidate got it. Eric thought that this was due to Fred’s unwillingness to train and hand over responsibilities to local engineers and his inability to work well with district and federal regulations in India. After the first meeting, Eric prepared for the second one with the Director and gathered all the necessary data. He realized that there is a big need for language training because China is more challenging, but this causes language problems and cultural difficulties as well. He was also thinking on the repatriation...
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...Introduction Eric Christopher was the Associate Director for Global HR Development at Tex-Mark. He got a very good education in Europe, he travelled a lot around the world and he could speak many languages as well. Tex-Mark was a firm in the printer and optical scanner industry. It had international production facilities. Eric hat two meetings: one with the Plant Engineer (Fred) and one with the Director. Eric knew also the plans that the company wanted costs cut and the Vice President for HR wants this by having cheaper training programs, shorter expatriate assignments and a faster appointment of HCNs. At the first meeting, Eric realized that Fred’s team did not relate well to their Mexican counterparts and Tex-Mark did not treat the local and national government agencies with enough respect and sensitivity. Although, it seemed that Fred will get a good position in India, but in the last minute, another candidate got it. Eric thought that this was due to Fred’s unwillingness to train and hand over responsibilities to local engineers and his inability to work well with district and federal regulations in India. After the first meeting, Eric prepared for the second one with the Director and gathered all the necessary data. He realized that there is a big need for language training because China is more challenging, but this causes language problems and cultural difficulties as well. He was also thinking on the repatriation, so he searched the data on repatriate turnover. HR Analysis...
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...equity refers to equal access, opportunities, and expectations in education for all persons, irrespective of their backgrounds or status. As a democratic nation, the United States offers a system of "universal" and free public education as a primary mechanism for providing equal educational access and opportunities to all persons, for preparing its people for civic participation in society, and for the socialization of immigrants. The basic premise of public schooling in our school district is that students at all grade levels are entitled to equal learning opportunities irrespective of advantages, disadvantages, or liabilities linked to skin color, ethnicity, disability, or socioeconomic status. An open system of public education serves as a key compensatory strategy to minimize individual differences and to equalize potential achievements and life outcomes for all. To achieve this end, attendance in public schools became compulsory in most states by the start of the 20th century. Specifically, the words equality and equity have different meanings. Equity speaks to public actions and policies in the cause of fairness and social justice. It requires a sufficient distribution of social resources to rectify initially unequal conditions for different groups of people. Equal access to educational opportunity has been a central issue of legal, educational, and social debates since the landmark Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1954. Affirmative action policies...
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...A STUDY ON THE BUSINESS PRACTICES IN E-PATSHAL A SUMMER PROJECT REPORT Submitted by SIVAKUMAR S Register Number: 1391041 In partial fulfilment for the award of the degree of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES SRI RAMAKRISHNA ENGINEERING COLLEGE Coimbatore-641 022 AUGUST 2014 SRI RAMAKRISHNA ENGINEERING COLLEGE COIMBATORE-641 022 Department of Management Studies A SUMMER PROJECT REPORT AUGUST 2014 This is to certify that the project report entitled A STUDY ON THE BUSINESS PRACTICES IN E-LEARNING is the bonafide record of project work done by SIVAKUMAR S Register Number: 1391041 of Department of Management Studies during the year 2013-2015 Project Guide Director-Management Studies Submitted for the project Viva-Voce examination held on Internal Examiner External Examiner DECLARATION I affirm that the Project titled “A STUDY ON THE BUSINESS PRACTICES IN E-PATSHAL” being submitted in partial fulfilment for the award of MBA is the original work carried out by me. It has not formed the part of any other project work submitted for award of any degree or diploma, either in this or any other university. SIVAKUMAR S 1391041 I certify that the declaration made above by the candidate is true. Dr. S. KRISHNAPRABHA Associate Prof. Department...
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