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NAME Praew Ponthapthong


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Unit 4 Research Report

Education and School:


Opportunities for children to study in
Developed countries and developing countries

Praew Ponthapthong (Praew)


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Teacher Mr Matt Allsopp
School Mahidol University International Demonstration Schoo

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Contents

Introduction 3

Methodology 3

Findings and Discussion 4

Conclusion 5

Reference 6

Appendices

Appendix A 7

Appendix B 7

Appendix C 8

Appendix D 8

Appendix E 9

Appendix F 9

Appendix G 10

Appendix H 10

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Introduction

Looking into worldwide education, many barriers disrupt children’s opportunities to

study. Roster (2018) has stated that 17% of the world’s population are not educated.

This research aims to discover factors influencing children educated in diverse

regions. First, I will examine the ten barriers to education I have got from

www.GlobalCitizen.org, the website studying about causes of poverty. Secondly, I will

make a survey in order to investigate the causes that obstruct students’ chances to study

by focusing on developed countries and developing countries. Finally, the result will be

presented and analyzed by the data gathered.

Methodology

Having noticed that not every child in this world is able to be educated because of

some factors, I would like to know what people think is the largest barrier that blocks

children’s rights to study. Therefore, the topic that interests me is “Opportunities for

children to study in developed countries and developing countries.”

In this research report, I have created the survey (Appendix A) asking for

participants’ information and opinion. The first, second and third questions are about their

hometown, job, and education background, respectively. (Appendix B) The inquiries

examining about participants’ thoughts are in the forth and fifth asking whether they think

it will be better if every child has an opportunity to study and that they think people have

higher education will have more opportunities to succeed in their life. (Appendix C)

Moreover, the last two questions will be investigated by their experience. (Appendix D)

They will be required to rate three greatest factors out of ten that I have researched, why

they think opportunities of studying varies in different countries and the last inquiry will

be about their own country, the reason why children in their country lack chances to study.

This survey is particularly made for locals from different countries, developed countries,

including The United States of America and The United Kingdom, and developing countries,

which are Thailand, The Philippines, India and Bangladesh, according to

www.worldpopulationreview.com, the website collecting live data of the world population.

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This survey was given to certain teachers and students in Mahidol University International

School (MUIDS), also acquaintances who have other nationalities. This research does not

only contain information from survey, but also facts and data from websites, which are

sources of significant information used in this research.

Finding and discussion

In this section, all of the results from the survey and researches I did will be

discussed and explained in detail. Research shows that “Worldwide, there are still more

than 150 million children ages 3 to 5 who do not have access to pre-primary education,

including more than 80% of children in low-income countries.” (Global Partnership for

Education, 2019), meaning that the largest group of children who do not have entry to

education is those in destitute countries, mostly pre-primary students. In addition, the

gap between out-of-school children in the poor and wealthy countries is very distant with

59% for the low-income countries and 6% for countries with the high income (UNESCO,

2018). This implies that children in developing countries mostly lack education, while kids

in developed countries are having high quality of education.

According to the survey, 86.4% of participants is teacher, while another 13.5%

consists of staff, administration, and a student (Appendix E). For the opinion question,

everyone agrees that it will be better if every child has an opportunity to study.

Additionally, 77.3% said that people with higher degrees will be more likely to succeed,

but 22.7% argues (Appendix F). Furthermore, the result shows that the three largest

barriers to student’s opportunity to study includes the family’s financial status, funding of

the country, and gender (Appendix G). The most influencing factor to education is financial

of the family, which can be said that low-income family cannot afford for child’s learning.

For instance, anonymous 1 claimed that Ireland used to be a tuition-free country, but the

government policy changed, so families are unable to pay for the fee (Appendix H).

Funding of the country, lack of support from the government can worsen the education

system by having not enough money to improve the system. The third crucial factor is

gender. Some countries still believe that women should not study, but become a

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housewife. Thus, gender inequality is still a large factor for studying in some areas.

Conclusion

To conclude, education is considered a basic of human right, yet it is still difficult

for a number of students in diverse regions to study due to the three major factors I have

collected from the questionnaire, containing poverty, government’s support, and gender

identity. From my perspective, I totally agree that education should be a big concern for

the government as educated people are more likely to play a vital role in developing the

country.

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References

Roster. M. (2018, Sep. 20). Literacy. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/literacy

Global Partnership for education. (2019, April 12). Explore global education statistics on
challenges and results organized by theme, including specific data for GPE partner
countries. Retrieved from https://www.globalpartnership.org/data-and-results/education-
data

UNESCO Institute for Statistics. (2018, Feb. 28). Education Data Release: One in Every
Five Children, Adolescents and Youth is Out of School. Retrieved from
http://uis.unesco.org/en/news/education-data-release-one-every-five-children-
adolescents-and-youth-out-school

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Appendices

Appendix A – Google Form survey introduction

Appendix B – questions asking for participant’s background information

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Appendix C – question asking about opinions

Appendix D – inquiries examining experiences

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Appendix E – pie chart showing result asking about career

Appendix F – pie chart demonstrating participant’s degree

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Appendix G – graph presenting result of experience question

Appendix H – result from anonymous 1 who is from Ireland

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