Distance Education Delivery – Constraints in Developing Countries
The Education sector in most developing countries is the most neglected sector, which ought to be the sector with the lion share of the budget. The reason for this anomaly is more political than technical as most of the leadership in these countries devoted more fund to perpetuate themselves in power than development of the economy. Principally, most developing countries devote less than 20% of the national budget to education which is the minimum recommended by UNESCO. Most developing countries whose economies are developing fast that have left that category like Singapore, South Korea, devoted much to education and human resources development.
The advent of the internet and the information age has help much to the delivery and cost effective access to the education contents from the fundamentals to the highest emblems of education you literally source for any education contents on the information superhighway. The resources and human capacity development requirements for developing the work force for a developed economy can be found on the internet. It s no wonder then than most developed economies have most of their tertiary education enrollment online – online education in most advance economies have their more than 40% of their tertiary education online.
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It was no contest. Given a choice between a ball and a book, my son would never have cracked a book binding. Giving him educational toys was a lot like giving him medicine. He didn’t want any part of either one. Fortunately, things have changed a great deal in the 20-odd years since he was a youngster. Educational toys, just like children’s medicines have come a long way. Children’s medicines taste good enough that tiny tykes will resist taking them only a little and learning toys have become a lot more enjoyable. For example, today there is great educational software for the family PC.
Now, that isn’t to say that you can walk into a toy department or a top quality toy store such as Toys R Us and randomly start slinging items labeled ‘educational toy’ in your shopping cart. You must take care when selecting educational toys. Fortunately, the ‘educational’ aspects of the toy can be kept well hidden behind the fun the child derives.
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