Introduction In France‚ education has a clear goal: the system must always produce a group of well-educated individuals with a common culture‚ language and abilities that can then serve the State. The French educational system has a very large emphasis on content‚ culturally specific knowledge‚ scientific and mathematic knowledge. The system is designed to serve the needs of the state; the individuality and originality are not considered worth while values The French Republic has 60 million
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going backwards. Dear Editor‚ I selected this topic from your newspaper heading. ‘Prime Minister Julia Gillard’ set an ambitious goal for Australian education to be ranked as a top-five country in reading‚ mathematics and science by 2025. But according to the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) Report‚ in 2000‚ Australia’s education system was ranked number two in the world for reading and mathematics and ranked three for science. Today‚ we’re number eight for science‚ number ten for
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“The Finland Phenomenon” a name given to Finland’s admired education system. It is listed as the most surprising school system in the world. Its success is intently watched by other countries. The assigned video “Finland’s Education Success” was documented by Tom Burridge of BBC World News America on April 6‚ 2010. Week four Reading Journal for English 101 was a writing assignment asking students if the system could be implemented in the United States. “Finland’s schools score consistently at the
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one of its paradoxes – the education system in India. Do you know why we call it paradoxical? The thing is that the number of illiterate people in India is really great. On the other hand‚ the quality of Indian education is rather high and some of the best-known institutions in the world are located in India. So‚ you have some troubles completing your essay on education system in India. Coming up with a specific and captivating idea for your essay on education system in India might take you a
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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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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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Indian Education System- An Advantage or Disadvantage India is a promised land of scholars and saints. There has been no dearth of knowledge in India since time immemorial. Indian civilization has been blessed with priceless knowledge of Vedas and Puranas. Coming all along with these Holy Scriptures‚ till the modern age of science and technology‚ India can be found nowhere legging behind. Nevertheless we need not deny the fact that‚ India still possesses some quarters where a bud of education is still
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Essay on Indian Education System To strengthen the Indian Education System‚ an educational policy was adopted by the Indian Parliament in 1968. Education was made an important and integral part of the national development efforts. After independence there has been an effort to spread education to all levels of Indian society. Statistics point to the fact that 99 per cent of children in age group 6-11 years have been enrolled in school. However‚ to bring the remaining into the ambit of universal
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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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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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