Essays on Primary Education

1) Theories are to concepts as hypotheses are to variables. Hypotheses depend on tests that suggest multiple variables. On the other hand, theories are made up of concepts ("Theory and Practice of Social Research" 4). 2) Does a hypothesis propose a relationship between dimensions or variables? Yes. A hypothesis depends on the link that exists between two or several variables. Whereby, a slight change in variable ‘A,' leads to a change in variable ‘B.' In this case, it can be almost predictable that if the first event occurs on the first variable, then we expect variable ‘B' to ...

Impact of internet penetration, education and investment on GDP

Variables and Design With the purpose of understanding the impact of economic variables on GDP of a country, we propose to include some conventional variables such as primary education and gross investment to GDP ratio, along with non-conventional factors such as internet penetration in our multiple regression analysis model. As part of this model, while the GDP of a country will be the dependent variable, other variables stated above, such as primary education, gross investment to GDP ratio and internet penetration will be the independent variables. Important to note, owing to some limitations relating to the data availability, for ...

The oil boom in Kuwait in the 1950s marked the biggest economic and social changes in the country. The opulence that the oil brought changed the way people lived their lives, from an economy which relied mainly on pearling, to a more comfortable and sedentary urban lifestyle. This trend was also translated to the system of education in the country. Before the oil boom, there were only few schools established in Kuwait. Al Mubarakiyya was the first modern educational institution in the country. Established in 1912, it was supported by the merchants primarily to have people working for them, ...

Article Analysis: World Poverty

Introduction In 2015, the United Nations is working with the World Bank’s ambitious plan to end extreme global poverty by the year 2030. This means that for the first time, every person in the world would afford common items and food to make their life easier. Many experts would debate on the main cause of poverty as it could be the changing trends in a certain country’s economy. Other factors would also include the lack of education, overpopulation, the presence of epidemic diseases like AIDS and malaria and even environmental problems like drought. Extreme weather can cause ...

The role of education is very crucial for the development of the society and welfare. Education plays an important role in enlightening and creating awareness and removing dogmatism and backwardness among members of the society (Apple 27). From early childhood education through primary education to advanced learning, humans undergo a process of learning to hone their critical thinking, spur creativity and build a society of knowledgeable men and women (Golub 10). As a major in education, I am concerned about the roles of education in the society, and in particular, how the socio-economic development of a community can be ...

1. Introduction The paper will present the gender gap in the Chad based on the Global Gender Gap Index report from 2015. The report ranked the 145 economies based on the female participation in economic, educational, health and political indicators. The inequalities between genders are seen all around the world, but the issue is even more concerning in developing countries than in developed ones. The inequality between genders has severe impacts on every aspect from economy to personal ones. The World Economic Forum in his reports since 2006 onward includes almost all countries in the world and based on ...

ROLE IN GLOBAL EDUCATION

Role in Global Education Abstract UNICEF is an organization that is involved in the improvement of developmental needs of children globally. Formed in 1946, after World War II, UNICEF has played a key role in furthering the cause of child rights and development across the world. It has achieved success through the use of a multi-pronged approach – strategically building partnerships with private and public sector, governments, societies and communities, volunteers, funding organizations and investments in technology and operations processes. Though it has played a key role in the success of the UN Millennial Development Goals, there are many challenges ...

Introduction

In this day in age, the need for older workers to enter the education realm is increasing. More adults are starting to participate in training and education programs in order to increase their skills and employability. The twenty-first century learners are now given endless options when it comes to obtaining educational resources. This has exposed these individuals to several different learning opportunities, such as online learning in higher education. Online learning gives these individuals the skills they need in order to retain their current positions through the comfort of their own home. This paper addresses the advantages and disadvantages ...

Introduction

Both the developing and other developed countries are focused on increasing the amount of foreign direct investments within the economy. The requirement of cash and financial resources within an economy are minimum, and therefore, they require additional investment to support the development and operational processes. Research has revealed that the amount of foreign direct investments in most of the developing countries has increased including Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, etc.) (Azeem et al., 2012). The core reason for the increase in FDI is that foreign investors earn higher returns on their investments in developing countries. The FDI not only increases the ...

Introduction

K-12 school system is the most common education model in America developed in 1852. The system begins at kindergarten level to grade twelve. Within the educational structure, as the child develops, he/she is exposed to different forms of educative activities that shape his/her understanding of basic concepts depending on the level. As a matter of fact, the program includes numerous stages through which the student is transformed from childhood, as he/she develops to grade 12 (Kirst & Venezia, 2004). The American government stipulated this particular education system as an authentic step and fundamental undertaking in its educational prospects. As a ...

Kenya has depicted some interesting trends in the socioeconomic sphere, since its independence some of them are portraying consistency like urbanization and fertility rate while others like per capita income, life expectancy and official development assistance, etc. show some marked changes. Some of these changes and their reasons along with their mutual correlation are explained in the following lines.

However, in the 90s the per capita income started decreasing and with it the average life as well. The downward trend in average life is also accompanied by a decrease in income and the reasons are no different from the ...

One of the Millennial Development Goals set by the United Nations to be achieved by the year 2015 is the universal primary education for children. Based on the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations (4) in 2015, an increase in 8% of the enrolment rate of primary schools in the developing regions was observed. The United Nations (4) also reported a worldwide decrease in the number of out-of-school children belonging to the primary school age by half. In the year 2000, the United Nations estimated 100 million out-of-school children belonging to the primary school age which was greatly lowered ...

Education has been among the first and prominent benefits following the modern Saudi Arabia development. The directorate of education was started in 1925 followed by basic regulations in the following year that laid down the centralized national system foundation. A new era in modern education development also started in 1953 and this was enhanced with the establishment of a new board in December the same year that served the purpose of the ministry of education as part of council of ministers. The first appointed minister in the education council, King Fahd Ibn Abdulaziz tirelessly guided the ministry through modernization and ...

Introduction

Notably, education is one of the factors that determine the standard of living in the world today. Education is merely the passing of skills, knowledge, and information to student by their teachers. It affects different aspects of human life, namely political, social, and economical. Education trains people to explore their potentials to optimum level regardless of gender, race nationality, or background. Certainly, education is an important and lucrative form of human capital that helps in furthering economic escalation as well as improving general productivity of a nation. In Bangladesh education is poorly developed. Furthermore, the rate of literacy is at ...

Introduction

It is not surprising to know that girls are better students than boys. From common knowledge, this is now a statistically proved claim in most parts of the world, including the United Kingdom. There have been numerous studies undertaken in the past few decades that have focused on this question, and nearly all the results point to the same conclusion: as far as school education is concerned, girls outperform (always have) boys. The aim of this paper is to analyze some of these studies, their methodologies, and the corresponding results, from the perspective of theories in education. Though the ...

Overview

This paper is across examination of a specified primary school education experience on the overall academic performance of junior secondary school students’ one, in Egerton Junior high school, Ndeffo, Naks. The private schools that are used in this study used instructional materials in a teaching and learning experiences in class. The materials varied from charts, tables and other audio visual aids used in a normal class setting. A sample class size of a 100 students of the school with 50% having come from government public primary schools and the rest of the students from private primary school institutions. In both types of institutions ...

Sector 1: Analysis on Real Estate

The survey ha 190 questionnaires issued to the people in real estate and the result findings shows that only a few women were interested real estate as men were leading with 60%. More of the surveyed people were Arabs with the majority of staff being youths. Those in the real estate seem to have been schooled properly as about 70% are graduates and above. The real estate seem to be doing well as the most people are paid above 5000diarham. A larger percent of 70% were not informed about the social environment accounting resulting to over 65% of the people ...

Introduction

Social policy often refers to a broad framework within which a country’s social welfare plans and agenda is put together in order to achieve the fundamental ends of the government and people of the nation. This includes a set of policies and practices concerned with promoting social welfare and wellbeing. Social policy is a process where policy makers use scientific methods to formulate important processes and regulations for the attainment of results relating to the social wellbeing for individuals and for the communities within the society and community groups. There are various constituents of social activities that affect and are affected ...

Professionalism is a worldwide recognized concept. Being a professional means specializing in a particular area of study. This person should, therefore, know every little detail of that specific field of study. There are different areas of study that offer that offer professional courses to individuals willing to pursue them. For example, there is medicine as a field of study. (Smith, 94-96). One can be an expert in the different branches that exist within the medical profession. One could, therefore, opt to be an expert in surgery under medicine. It would imply that this person could deal best with surgical problems within this profession. ...

Global Citizenship – The School of the Future

Other Details Global Citizenship – The School of the Future

Introduction

Citizenship refers to the right of an individual to live, work, and participate politically in a specific geographic area. Global citizenship defines the individual who considers his identity with the global community superior to his identity with a particular area. This identity transcends all geographic boundaries of state, country, or city. A global citizen does not renounce his citizenship of the city, state, or country to which he belongs. He merely places his global responsibilities and duties above those towards his country (Israel, 2012). In the world of education, global citizenship ...

IntroductionThe United Kingdom and the United States share a very rich tradition of offering quality education. They both boast of excellent research facilities in their higher education programmes, and have both cultivated a culture that immensely promotes academic freedom and intellectualism. They both provide an excellent environment for pupils and students to learn in. Between the two education systems, there exist similarities and differences in the different facets of education (International student, 2014). The facets include the school system, the structure of the education systems: pre-school, primary, secondary and higher education levels, the national curricula employed in teaching, qualification of students, ...

Introduction

Ghana, a West African nation and former British Colony, is the first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence from European colonial rule. Ghana gained independence in 1957 through the effort of Kwame Nkrumah, and this spurred other neighboring African countries also to fight for their independence. Ghana is rich in culture, natural resources and so forth. The region was formally known as Gold Coast because trade in the region was formally centered on Gold. Ghana is notable not only for Gold mining but also for the production of cocoa, tourism and so forth (“Ghana”, 2009: Maier, 2014). Ghana as a ...

Kenya is an interesting African country. I choose this country because of the richness of culture and the struggles it is making towards independence. Like all other countries in the sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya is faced with many challenges of economy. One of the challenges that Kenya face and has been with it since independence is the education system. This is the reason why the education system has undergone many changes since independence in 1963. Fifty years after independence, there are still some aspects of the British education system especially when it comes to management and the pedagogy. In the ...

Abstract

The broad objective of this study was to assess the public perception towards the Japanese knotweed in the United Kingdom (UK). The specific objectives, however, were to identify the influence of background factors such as age, gender, education levels and socio-economic status, on the public perception. The survey was carried out in Cardiff targeting an adult population of over 18 years of age. A total of 20 respondents were selected using the random sampling method. Efforts were made to ensure that the sample selected represented the larger UK population. Data was collected using self-administered questionnaires. The questionnaire was designed ...

Confidence, good sense of humor, sincerity and good communication skills have always been the strong sides of my personality and have continuously helped me to get along well with people of all ages. However, working with children has always been of a special interest to me. The idea of playing an active role in helping them learn, develop, discover new things about the world and gain some valuable insight into their perceptions and the way they see the world has always greatly appealed to me. Therefore, I have decided to apply to the Primary Education degree at the University of Greenwich, ...

Independent Research

Independent Research Education is the process through which organized knowledge is passed from one generation to the other. The passing of knowledge occurs through teaching, research or can happen through guidance from educational specialist. Education is a basic right recognized by the international convention on Economic, social and cultural rights. Most governments in the world have recognized the need for education. Education is compulsory in most jurisdictions, unlike the schooling. Schooling in western countries is not compulsory. The need to go to a classroom and get instructions from a tutor has been replaced by e-learning. E-learning creates a virtual learning environment ...

Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois This book by W.E.B. Du Bois was first published in 1935. It takes a deeper depth in examining Reconstruction of the south in the Civil War of America. It delves more on the economic front. The most significant argument in the text is basically that black and white workers were divided on racial grounds after the civil war (Du and Edward 12). This had an unfortunate result. The white class which had a lot of property took advantage of them since the laborers could not stand against them. This, according to DU Bois, was ...

Abstract

The importance of education should not be taken for granted even for remote and almost inaccessible areas, far from urbanity. There are many benefits of implementing an early childhood education program for children as well as their parents; however, doing so in a remotely aboriginal community area can be an entirely different thing. This can involve significantly highest construction costs brought about by highest transportation costs; and also slower construction project turnaround time due to the mere distance between the suppliers and the construction location, etc. The objective of this paper is to evaluate on the implementation of an early ...

Executive Summary

The reason of this research was to enhance education and knowledge of diabetes and its types for the good wellbeing and encourage healthy way of life actions to decrease diabetes base on the community in developing states with a comparatively high occurrence of diabetes. The occurrence of diabetes was measured by the questionnaire methodology distributed in community to know the information level of diabetes and its occurrence. The expansion of these factors of diabetes diseases reveals the main reasons enforcing cultural, economic and social transformation in the community of developing states. These similar reasons are enforcing the epidemiological background with ...

Introduction

The education system in Saudi Arabia is well structured by the government that helps reduce the illiteracy level in the country. This begins from the time when Saudi Arabia became a state in 1932 in which the educational system was limited to a few where they had to go to the Islamic schools. Over the years, education has improved to a point where all students had to go to school from the primary level to secondary level for free. The education system in Saudi Arabia has separated both the men and female in which girls go to the female schools whereas the ...

Burma (Myanmar) currently has the largest number of child soldiers in the world. This number is expected to increase exponentially, given the most recent unrest in that part of the world due to religious conflicts between Buddhists and Muslims. This fighting arose between the Rohingya Muslims and the Rakhine Buddhists in June 2012, and erupted once more after the reelection of the President on the 21st of October. Many of the rebel groups put to use child labor and child soldiers in carrying out their illegal activities.

Child Labor

For many societies, child labor was part of life. Many families viewed ...

Location

Introduction Economists argue that macroeconomic policies are put in place to strike a state of balance in the monetary sector of an economy. This is achieved through a combination of fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies. To attain this, policy makers get charged with the responsibility of devising appropriate policy mix and establishing efficient policy instruments to spearhead the entire macroeconomic policy formulation exercise. Usually, economists experiment with various policy mixes until they achieve the best suited policy mix to match the various factors of economy. These policies need regular review and revision to keep up with the changing trends ...

This paper reviews the literature that connects asset savings and poverty to educational outcomes. Studies that have examined the roles of these factors in influencing educational outcomes have recorded positive results. Education is considered as the most fundamental asset savings element in combating poverty. Through education, learners are exposed to broad-based profitable opportunities that free individuals from the ravages of social marginalization. Owing to lack of access to social infrastructure and limited opportunities, the process of acquiring quality education proves to be challenging in poverty-stricken livelihoods (Paxson 11). US National database records from an analysis by UNESCO (40) indicate ...

Background

The inclusion of learners with special needs is gradually becoming a major concern to various governments (Holt, 2004). With the enactment of the Disability Discrimination act of 1992 and changes in community perceptions towards individuals with disability in Australia, mainstream primary educational institutions have had to prioritize children with disabilities’ inclusion (Forbes, 2007). Holt (2004) gives a social model definition of disability as the disadvantage or restriction of activity resulting from contemporary social organization which takes either little or no account of individuals with physical impairments thereby excluding them from mainstream social activities. Generally, children are considered learning disabled if they ...

Millennium Development Goals: Western Europe

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) signifies the declaration of commitment from the international community to poverty eradication and universal development. MDG concrete targets were made in the United Nation Millennium Declaration in September 2000. The prime targets include reducing the world hunger and poverty by half, ensuring universal primary education, achieving two-thirds reduction in maternal mortality and deaths of children under five-years of age, and reducing the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water by halve (Chowdhury, & Iyanatul, 2011). Other goals included ensuring the achievement of environmental sustainability, empowering women, and promotion of gender equality, development of a worldwide ...

Education in the UK and Qatar

Introduction

Scholars in the field of education have published several researches comparing education systems of various countries. All over the world, behind every system of education there are factors, features or determinants that help shape each one of them. The system of education in the UK is one that has majorly been replicated in other countries especially in its former colonies. It is a system that prepares students to compete in the global market. In Qatar, the education system attempts to serve the purpose of preserving the Qatari heritage and respecting the personality of the people. In this paper, the ...

The present literature aims to review a few articles that study the economic development in the Western Europe in terms of factors such as achievement of Million Development Goals, the growth of Gross National Income, Education and Health, Financial resources and population growth. The idea is to acquire an idea of the status, progress and prospects of the economic development in the Western Europe. For the purpose, numerous literatures were reviewed such as articles, government reports and reports prepared by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe that concentrated on the different factors as listed above. While some literature ...

Introduction

What do parents look for when comparing public and private schools? Is it the quality of education or affordability that determines choice between the two? Some parents will prefer public schools while others will prefer private schools for their children. It’s obvious because there are differences between private and public schools. Therefore, parents base their choices according to factors such as finance, proximity of school, school’s history of performance, and personal taste of children or parents. Parents expect the schools they chosen for their children to meet high goals of academic achievement ( ...

Arguably, education in the world currently is more than a luxury; it is the responsibility of society, government, and education stakeholders to provide it. Education is a vital tool that determines numerous factors in human life. To many, education is one of the human rights, implying that every individual has a right to access it. Declaration of occupy Wall Street in New York expressed solidarity and demanded corporation of the entire human race. Cooperate systems in the world should protect the rights of individuals (Occupy Wall Street). Therefore, current education systems deserve to be fully criticized. The current education system has held ...

Bangladesh and Current Development Issues

Bangladesh has a rich cultural history of over 4000 years with centuries of stability under some dynasties such as the Buddhist Pala Dynasty which ruled for four hundred years during the early years of the Contemporary Era. During the Medieval years the area was one of the richest areas until problems between Indian empires and between Hindus and Buddhists brought conflict to the area. (EFA 2000).

Arabic merchants traveling for spices and silk introduced the area to Islam in about the 12th century. The Bengal area was controlled by the British East India Company in the mid 1600s. (EFA 2000)

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IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES IN VULNERABLE POPULATION

It is with much gratitude that this letter is written and addressed to the school board. To start with, the board is highly appreciated for the work done for the benefit of both the learners and the community at large. Much of the concern in this letter will address will be with reference to the community and the importance where there is increased underutilization within the community around the school. This is much of a proposal on the realization of the resources that the community has but without their knowledge results in spending much finance in trying to achieve the ...

Every country is unique in the business opportunities and risks it presents to any organization. In this country report, I will evaluate the Indian market for economic, social, cultural, political and legal risks and opportunities that it could present to Read the World or RTW. Secondary research and literature review are the methods that have been employed to relevant data for the analysis. The paper will conclude with remarks on why RTW will not be able to run successfully in India.

Executive Summary

Read the World (RTW) is a multinational organization that aims to combine moderate profitability with education of the poor ...

Does gender inequality reduce growth and development in India?

INTRODUCTION

Developing countries, India included have been seen to show a significant disparity and inequality with regard to education, employment opportunities and medical facilities. This I supported by the fact that school girls and women suffer most from high-death rates, discrepancies in school attendance, and limited job opportunities. The inequality is extremely severe to the extent that women are paid meagerly and this has played a significant role in the over al poor performance of the Indian economy. The ability to make the aforementioned conclusions depends on one’s ability to distinguish inherent ...

Abstract

Education in the principal intelligence is any action or occurrence that has a determining effect on the mind, nature or physical ability of a person. In its technological sense, education is the procedure by which society intentionally broadcasts its accrued information, skills and values from one age group to another. It is therefore imperative to invest in education for a better society. This paper seeks to discuss the historical development of education in the Caribbean focussing wholly on the British Caribbean. This paper also shows the challenges incurred during the development phase and provides an in depth look at the current educational ...