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Education, Technology and Life is a never ending human activity.
Alternative Substitute to Overcome the Expensive Costs School
Published February 19, 2012 | 
A factor supporting the high cost of school is usually attributed to the cost of the building. Each new student must have had the burden to pay for buildings, whose numbers could be quite large. If the government favored the emergence of alternative schools run by the community, the issue of the building could be minimized; and automatically, it will reduce the number of DO (Drop Out) because the cost can be less expensive school.
The attendance of Nature School has shown that children can be very enthusiastic about learning in outdoors. Their spirit to go to school as unstoppable. They always find something new every day. Because so many secrets in nature which can be learned. The teacher’s role is to guide children to direct their students to want to do the exploration and study of all available learning media in nature. Although cost is not cheaper than conventional schools, but as an alternative to solve the stiffness of educational formats, such school model can be selected.
Actually a lot of alternative schools established, and where learning is not in a school building, as we generally see. There are people who make the school under a bridge, railroad, or people’s homes. On the one hand, it may seem sad, because actually a lot of rich people with excess wealth is more widely used to dissipate, and not channeled to that in need. But if we think positively, then the existence of schools ‘emergency’ was a source of inspiration to create a place of creative forms of learning, when the need demands it.
Even if the concept is acceptable, then the pupils of the school which has been running too, if it Were the school still does not work, then they can be distributed to several places of learning. It was still a lot too, especially in rural areas, parents who are willing to set up the yard, patio, or one room on his house (if any) to be a place to learn a number of 5 or even 10 children.
Education for Long-Term Investments
Published December 31, 2011 |
It was generally found that better-educated person of their income, which is better. This is possible because the educated are more productive in terms of education. An increase in productivity is due to his technical skills acquired in education. Therefore, one of the objectives for the general development of life skills. That’s exactly the feeling of competence curriculum, teaching and education skills to the broad base of life that developed in Indonesia in recent years. In the United States (1992) doctoral educated person on average earnings per year of 55 million dollars, 40 million dollar master, and scholar 33 million dollars. In the meantime, more graduates earn on average only 19 million dollars per year. In the same year, this structure also occurs in Indonesia. For example, on average, between rural and urban incomes of graduates per year is Rp 3,500,000, Rp 3,000,000 in the Academy, 1.9 million Rupiah middle and primary schools, only 1.1 million Rupiah.
Proponents of human capital theory argue that education will provide an investment in human resources, monetary or in kind. Non-monetary benefits of education is to provide better working conditions, job satisfaction, efficiency in consumption, the satisfaction of enjoying retirement and the benefits of living longer because of the diet and get more health. Monetary benefits are the economic benefits in the form of additional income a person have completed studies on the graduate level of the lower income.
Professor Toshiko Kinosita suggested that staff in Indonesia is still too weak to support the development of industry and the economy. The reason the government has been training as a priority. Not placed education as a top priority for the people of Indonesia, the usual attempt by the politicians and government officials, only the pursuit of money to enrich themselves and do not think too much.
Professor of Waseda University in Japan opinion is very interesting to study because the government of Indonesia started to look on education as a long-term investment, long neglected after training. One measure already approved by the Assembly to prioritize the educational budget of at least 20% of the state budget or the budget. This step is an early awareness of the importance of education as a long-term investment. At least three reasons for the primacy of education as a long-term investment, as I described in my last opportunity.
The Gender Dimension in Mongolia
Published September 25, 2011 |
This article asks two questions in relation to the abrupt political and economic transitions in Mongolia: Firstly, why does gender matter in economics? Secondly, what gender-related issues have emerged as a result of transition in Mongolia?
The article concludes that:
- Economic transition has changed the nature of male and female participation in the Mongolian economy. Both groups have experienced greater job insecurity, reduction of state employment and the need for new skills and ways of generating income
- Similar rates of unemployment exist for males and females, though slightly higher for females; this difference is, however, smaller than in other transitional economies
- For both men and women, there have been declines in health and an increase in social problems
- Gender differences have emerged which mirror the experience of women in other transitional economies to some extent
- Transition in Mongolia has eroded women’s previous status, economic security, levels of reproductive health, and participation in public life
- Women have less influence in policy-making bodies and forums than they had before transition
- Transition increased women’ workloads, particularly nomadic and rural women
- Women have benefited less than men in the acquisition of assets from privatization and this has affected their power to raise credit and loans for micro-economic enterprises and self-employment, resulting in fewer opportunities
- The boundaries between male and female roles in family and work are shifting. In pre-transition Mongolia, the state supported women in child-bearing and child-care through generous benefits and day-care services. This helped to shape male roles and perceptions of them. Withdrawal of state support and changes in family earning patterns has stabilized familiar male and female roles in this respect. For women, their roles as ‘care givers’ has expanded while their need to earn wages for the household economy has also increased
- Rebalancing male-female roles is currently in process however barriers to change are institutionalized in families and organizations, though not the law
- The costs and opportunities of the transition process in Mongolia are being unevenly shared so far
- Female participation in education, including higher education, is higher than that of males