China Education System: Past‚ Present‚ and Future. Jocelyn F. Smith Global Operations and Strategy School of Professional Studies Professor: Emilio Iodice It is hard to deny a country economic growth that has increased 9.3 percent in one year. China has made great contributions in growth to its income per capita‚ much faster than any other region in the world. This is a good move for a large country with a large rural population. China rural poverty population has decreased by a big
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visions of ‘Education for All’ into empty dreams. Especially‚ population explosion has put a heavy pressure on its available infra-structure. Only 64.84% people are literate and 35.16% still illiterate according to 2001 census‚ (Males – 75.26% and Females – 53.67%). In absolute number‚ the figure of illiterates is alarming. No nation can afford to have a large number of its population to remain illiterate‚ ignorant and unskilled. Education and the masses In ancient India‚ education was confined
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Functionalists have argued that educational systems in modern industrial societies are meritocratic. Provision of equal opportunity towards education in different group helps to realize potentials and invoke the ability to be upwardly mobile‚ thus changing the structure of social inequality. However‚ the Marxists approaches have argued that the idea of a meritocratic educational system is a myth and has in fact reproduced social inequality. Educational attainment thus‚ to a large extent depends
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THE PHILIPPINE EDUCATION SYSTEM The education system of the country includes formal and non-formal education. Compared to other Asian countries‚ the Philippine education system differs in a number of ways. Basic education in the Philippines is only 10years as against 12 in other countries. The Philippine education system is closely related to the American system of formal education while other Asian countries are influenced by the English‚ French or Dutch system. The Philippines issuing a bilingual medium
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A Comparative Analysis of Mexico and United States’ Public Education System In the United States‚ by the age of five or younger‚ children begin their long journey in the education system. The typical student completes kindergarten through twelfth grade‚ and is then expected to continue on their education in college that can range anywhere from two to eight years. The total amount that a “typical” student will spend in the public education system throughout their life can be anywhere from 12-22
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are. My eyes have been opened as to why our schooling system is ranked so low compared to those of other countries. Along with this‚ I see how ignorant many people can be when it comes to America’s schooling system. Even though all these other countries have been succeeding with their education systems‚ many of these teachers in America believe that our system provides results. I do not understand is why they cannot see how unsound our system is when the facts are right in front of them. I believe
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A Profile of the Indian Education System Gretchen Rhines Cheney‚ Betsy Brown Ruzzi and Karthik Muralidharan Paper prepared for the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce November 2005 ©National Center on Education and the Economy‚ 2006 A Profile of the Indian Education System Gretchen Rhines Cheney Betsy Brown Ruzzi and Karthik Muralidharan November 2005 India‚ with more than a billion residents‚ has the second largest education system in the world (after China)
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to the sociological perspective‚ education does not arise in response of the individual needs of the individual‚ but it arises out of the needs of the society of which the individual is a member. The educational system of any society is related to its total social system. It is a sub system performing certain functions for the on-going social system. The goals and needs of the total social system get reflected in the functions it lays down for educational system and the form in which it structures
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INTRODUCTION Education is the backbone of sustainable development. Education stimulates and empowers people to participate in their own development. A plan for sustainable development must address the issue of education because it plays a critical role not only in expanding further educational opportunities‚ but also in fostering basic intellectual abilities such as literacy that are crucial to success in a world where power is closely linked with knowledge. Primary education must receive a great
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EDUCATION SYSTEM IN PRE INDEPENDENT INDIA ANCIENT INDIA The Hindu tradition India is the site of one of the most ancient civilizations in the world. The Indo-European-speaking peoples who entered India in the 2nd millennium BCE established large-scale settlements and founded powerful kingdoms. In the course of time‚ a group of intellectuals‚ the Brahmans‚ became priests and men of learning; another group‚ of nobles and soldiers‚ became the Kshatriyas; the agricultural and trading class was called
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