The problem of education inequality | CNBC Reports

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted education inequality affecting both poor and rich nations across the world. CNBC’s Tom Chitty goes to find out the best ways of tackling what many believe is at the root of all inequality.
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[yongweisu]

A voice from Cambodia 🇰🇭!

I came from a state owned school and finished my high school examination with A grade. Then, I enrolled in a state owned university and completed my bachelor degree last month. Recently, I joined a Management Trainee Program to compete with other fresh graduate students in order to earn the top 5 spots to be qualified. One of them was a girl that graduated from foreign countries (she spent 3 years in Singapore and one year in Australia) and I can see clearly see the difference between us in term of languages, skills, and knowledge. It’s hard to stay being optimist because in reality students from rural areas in my countries don’t even know how to properly use a computer while those in urban areas ace this skill and other multiple skills since they were young. To my knowledge, one of the possible ways right now is to enrich the English language to the disadvantaged students and also creating high quality educating contents in our own language, namely “Khmer”. Ideally, I hope those students will obtain the proficiency in English language, then study the contents that suit their interests through educational media that vastly available at hand now.

[danielmorille]

A system not based on the reality of life is not education.its a program

[aryamore]

This thing is also evident in India. Students preparing for NEET/JEE (and for many other competitive exams) who pay lakhs of fees in coaching institutes get a remarkable edge over the students who can't afford to go to these coachings. Most of the teachers teaching at these institutes are IITians, doctors, etc. These coachings provide great facilities to their students, so the results are obvious. There are very few government colleges (of class 11 and 12) in India who actually prepare their students for these competitive exams.
Also what I have noticed is that it's not just the school that you go to matters but also the kind of peer group which you have. Also, the support and thinking of your parents and the overall society and environment in which live matters when it comes to education.

[princejha]

This is soo true..
But the real situation is even more dull.
For the sake of the work, schools are providing the online classes to the students without considering whether they have or haven't necessary access to the resources.
This malice is pervading in rural regions more abruptly

[-OSwords]

Education is a joke. I graduated 4th in my class as an AP Scholar & National Merrit Commended student, couldn't get into a very small college that was not even that prestigious & even if I could have I was only able to get 1 $700 scholarship, my parents had no college fund for me & I was not going to go into a lifetime of debt for some very unknown future...America, land of wage slave.

[nampalamonicah]

"An education that prepares learners for life after school" I would really love to see this. In my country, we are trained to seek jobs, so may graduates are frustrated by the education system. Most of them end up studying by staying in school all their lives as a defense mechanism. Our education needs to teach the mind, heart and hands for us to be a bit more successful.

[VijayThapa]

Malcolm Gladwell has also explained it in his book "Outliers".

[apoorvadoshi]

If you wanna research about the real inequality in education, you should visit India.

[aperson]

In my opinion the most important thing which determines the educational performance of the child is whether his/her parents value education or not. Everything else is secondary.

[memorablequestionslee]

I hope digital education is more developed to fill the inequality gap of education.

[economicsinaction]

Great piece Tom, this issue needs more attention in the media

[trekntrails]

Here in India education is a business, the more money u have the better education you'll have which very obvious leads to inequality

[dstorm]

The solution is to have a meritocracy, and use scholastic aptitude tests of the kind which allowed a poor kid like me to go to college. But the Left wants to give college admissions and jobs to people based upon accidents of birth such as gender and ethnicity.

[Parishkrit]

Hey CNBC please make a video on Indian students facing problems in this

[НикитаФадеев-фь]

What you run into here is that: “Can a five-year-old child really choose how it wants to be educated? Can it choose what it wants to study? Does it have enough experience and awareness to do this?” You have to give children a foundation. Therefore, you could say that you could create a basis education, the minimum education of what children needed to learn. And this could be, you know, reading, writing, some basic math, some basic awareness of society, but it should also and will include psychology, so that children learn to work on their psychology.
Because there will be the realization that the primary function of the educational system is not to fill the child’s mind with knowledge, but actually to help the child resolve its psychology and put it on a constructive track for the rest of its life.

[lenzalafonso]

Everything has a price.
If you want quality education, you pay quality money. It's hard, but no easy way.

[azamimehdi]

Education is the foundation of success

[XOPOIIIO]

My education didn't affect me in any positive way. I just wasted my time. But I'm successful anyway, because I was self-educating, anybody can self educate these days.

[sunitakumari-osoi]

India has changed its education system now...I am quite hopeful about it 👍

[arupmandal]

Without solving social and economic inequality . We cannot solve education inequality. We are suffering but government wants to keep education more expensive to some handful of rich family.