While Poverty and marginalization have severely thrown the goal of Universal education and other educational objectives off course; Africa’s education crisis is a reflection of the regions stark economic and political challenges which inadvertently perpetuated the fault lines that threaten the regions social progress. Consequentially millions of children and youth of their futures.
In Sub-Saharan Africa the educationally marginalized hail from rural or remote villages, conflict affected areas, or come from ethnic and linguistic minorities, and make up half of the children that fail to complete a full cycle of primary school. For example in Uganda 90 out of 100 children of the poorest households who entered school in 2006 only 49 out …show more content…
(mdg africa) Globally wealth and income based disadvantages deprive millions of children and youth of educational opportunities. Since wealthier families are able to spend more on education than poor families, the poorest children often lack access to underperform lacking even the most basic skills, and in some of the most extreme will never enter a classroom. cases Example here ------- Sub-Saharan Africa’s rural areas bear witness to this stark reality. In Malawi, where 85% of the population live in rural areas around half of children who start primary school drop out. (efa pp.29) This fact gives further insight into the connection between rural poverty and educational disadvantage. rural poverty is both extreme and pervasive in SSA. Living conditions in rural areas are often harsh.(rural conditions) Given the difficult circumstances for people living in rural area children living in rural areas are faced with enormous obstacles for attaining educational opportunities. For poor families the cost of school can be the difference between a parent sending their child to school and …show more content…
First the 1990’s was considered to be a decade of major financial duress caused in part by naivety of its governments who resorted to borrowing large amounts of money from the IMF; whose brutal structual agreements clipped the wings of a nascent economy. The crushing debt acquired by the region in the 1990’s has also been at the center of some of the worst catastrophes and humanitarian crisis such as HIV/AID’s, hunger, conflict, severely crippled livelihoods, and largely non-existent or grossly ineffective education systems have rocked the continent. ( ) In the millinieum Africa since emerged on the global scene as a powerful economic player. What economic experts once considered to be a hopeless continent is now one of the world’s fastest growing economies ;perhaps more than any other region of the world thanks to it’s rich deposits of oil, coal,uranium,iron, and other valuable resources.
In Sub-Saharan Africa the educationally marginalized hail from rural or remote villages, conflict affected areas, or come from ethnic and linguistic minorities, and make up half of the children that fail to complete a full cycle of primary school. For example in Uganda 90 out of 100 children of the poorest households who entered school in 2006 only 49 out …show more content…
(mdg africa) Globally wealth and income based disadvantages deprive millions of children and youth of educational opportunities. Since wealthier families are able to spend more on education than poor families, the poorest children often lack access to underperform lacking even the most basic skills, and in some of the most extreme will never enter a classroom. cases Example here ------- Sub-Saharan Africa’s rural areas bear witness to this stark reality. In Malawi, where 85% of the population live in rural areas around half of children who start primary school drop out. (efa pp.29) This fact gives further insight into the connection between rural poverty and educational disadvantage. rural poverty is both extreme and pervasive in SSA. Living conditions in rural areas are often harsh.(rural conditions) Given the difficult circumstances for people living in rural area children living in rural areas are faced with enormous obstacles for attaining educational opportunities. For poor families the cost of school can be the difference between a parent sending their child to school and …show more content…
First the 1990’s was considered to be a decade of major financial duress caused in part by naivety of its governments who resorted to borrowing large amounts of money from the IMF; whose brutal structual agreements clipped the wings of a nascent economy. The crushing debt acquired by the region in the 1990’s has also been at the center of some of the worst catastrophes and humanitarian crisis such as HIV/AID’s, hunger, conflict, severely crippled livelihoods, and largely non-existent or grossly ineffective education systems have rocked the continent. ( ) In the millinieum Africa since emerged on the global scene as a powerful economic player. What economic experts once considered to be a hopeless continent is now one of the world’s fastest growing economies ;perhaps more than any other region of the world thanks to it’s rich deposits of oil, coal,uranium,iron, and other valuable resources.