...Advantage: Educational Disadvantage Equality in the Australian education system is something that is yet to be realized. The term equality is not in reference to gender but has been used in reference to socio-economic status of the students. Australia is first world nation. As such, one would be forgiven to assume that equality in the education system was long realized. It comes as a surprise that Australia has one of the largest disparities in academic performance. The disparity between the best performing students and the world performing lot is among the highest in the world (Australia, 2009). Research has established that in Australia, about 42% of all the students who enroll into institutions of higher learning are from well to do families (Australia, 2003). On the other hand, only about 15% of the students who enroll into institutions of higher learning (Australia, 2002). It is then clear that there is quite a high level of disparity in the Australian education system about socio-economic status. A fact that seeks to compound the gravity of the situation is that about 40% of all the indigenous students in Australia are unable to meet the mathematics and reading standards that have are expected of Australian students (Teese & Polesel, 2003). Such a situation necessitates the need for a discussion of this issue. If this situation is not addressed, it will culminate in a severe deterioration of the quality of the Australian education system. One cannot choose the family...
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...of the EU. The EU affects the way that the UK businesses perform. The EU began in the 1950’s and started off as European communities. France and Germany were the first countries to join however, 25 more countries joined the EU making it 27 members. The purpose of the EU is to allow people to move freely within the EU countries and also allow goods and services to move freely within the EU participating countries. This also means that the EU can import goods from non EU countries in bulk and they can distribute it without the member countries having to pay any extra costs. Having this has meant that it is cheaper to trade within the EU. European policies The European policies which impact Easy Jet are business growth and employment, education, economics and finance and environment. Business, Growth and Employment The business, business growth and employment is a consolation paper to investigate ways to invest and grow that are smarter and greener. Part of the focus of the Europeans commission is on enterprise and industry policy. The European members work with the countries involved to become successful and achieve growth and employment. Easy Jet want to grow their talent and keep easy jet strong they do this by having well prepared people who are willing to take ownership. The growth of the Easy Jet has also led employment levels...
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...(ISP) proposed to its key supplier Rajkumar Impex (RI) to join forces in the commitment to counteract this tendency prejudicial to the cashew sector and their common business. Rajkumar accepted the invitation. Civic stakeholders i.e. ICCO Cooperation, in particular ICCo India, and BoP Innovation Center through the initiative ‘Women as Inclusive Business partners, will be key partners in the design and implementation of the project. Vision Women as Inclusive Business partners in the cashew industry Mission Partners recognize that the - often hidden- potential of women can lead the cashew industry into higher efficiency standards, increased product and processes quality and greater gender equality. To seize this potential and position, project partners envisage a project with a focus on: * Enhancing women’s access and agency to upgrade their position in the cashew sector * Enlarging women’s scope for work opportunities in and beyond the cashew processes * Active promotion of the aspiration level in women to position work in the cashew industry as a ‘Profession with Pride’ * Enabling forward looking cashew companies to look upon women as key to the success of their business. Objectives * To enable affected women...
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...Equality means to ensure that everybody is treated fairly, equally and as an individual specific to their own needs. University of Edinburgh defines equality as “Equality is ensuring individuals or groups of individuals are not treated differently or less favourably, on the basis of their specific protected characteristic, including areas of race, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation and age”. The Equality Act 2010 provides protection against discrimination for people who possess one or more of the nine specific protected characteristics. These are age, disability, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex, gender reassignment and sexual orientation. Diversity means appreciating...
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...at limiting its excesses and resist it. Examples can be: - the power of the media (reality tv, internet v written press) - Financial power (the power of money) - Inequalities between blacks and whites - the fight against oppression and segregation (South Africa, USA) - The American Dream - The Civil Rights movement and political recognition : Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X (can also be linked to the notion of Myths and Heroes) Idea of Progress The idea of progress can be defined as an improvement, a development or a change - a technical, scientific or social advance which contributes to making the world a better place. Examples can be: - Scientific Progress - Medical advances, cures for illnesses, cloning, performance enhancing drugs, genetically modified organisms. - Technological Progress- technologies to slow down climate...
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...socioeconomic leverage to the people of color in America. The Act which was successfully passed by the U.S. Congress in 2001, sought to make quality elementary and secondary education accessible to disadvantaged students, particularly, the children of color people. The Act is an upgrade of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) passed during President Lyndon Johnson’s time in office in 1965 to help states create a leveled field for children living in poverty. The primary goal of the Act was to...
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...decades. It causes cities to have more labourers and resources than before. This makes a big contribution to the social development of cities. Thanks to these social developments, public services are becoming better in these areas. Citizens can enjoy a better life by access these public services such as better medical care, more education resources and well-built transport. It means an equitable society can be created. An equitable society means citizens can have more opportunities to access social resources and to live a better life. This essay will argue that urbanisation builds an equitable society. The reasons for this will include more career opportunities for citizens and higher life quality. Urbanisation can bring same opportunities to citizens to get financial security, which provided by career achievement. Job achievement not only leads financial support of daily life but also leads a better life standard. Firstly, people can access education resources more easily and this enables them to acquire more job skills. Thongyou et al. (2014, p. 36) state that one of the most positive impacts of urbanisation is it brings more education opportunities to young people in rural areas because of more convenient transportation to the city where vocational colleges and universities are located. From this evidence, it can be seen that due to the high population growth, more convenient transport were built. These young people in rural areas can access colleges or...
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...Sexism in Politics As far as the politics goes, there has been, without fail, discrimination, sexism and stereotyping. Many of those that do not fit into the desires of the mainstream, for example, women who have endeavoured to break that handicap in society as well as the political sphere. Modern times have shown greater acceptance and tolerance towards groups that do not meet requirements of circumscribed circles. In this essay, the issue addressed is the lack of equality in this particular circumscribed circle called politics on an international level. There is still the need to define discrimination, stereotyping and prejudice among groups and race. In modern times, psychologists and scholars have focused their attention to human behaviour, the human mind as well as gender based issues within the political sphere and even within that area, issues of discrimination, stereotyping, prejudice especially gender do not cease to exist. Sexism has, in the modern era, gained much academic and social legitimacy. Scholars and feminists have thoroughly examined the politics of identification as follows: (a) Gender shapes not only who we are but the world(s) we live in (b) Resistance to changing our personal (gender) identities obstructs feminist movement (c) The identity of the modern subject is not gender neutral but masculine (and typically European) (d) Feminist identity is itself problematic given the diversity (non-identity) among women. (e) Identity...
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...Change, Advancing Health, 2011, pg.2) Besides the numbers, nurses are at the patient bedside and beyond (community and public health centers, schools etc.), providing care to a diverse patient population. Therefore, according to the IOM report, nurses are thought to be ideal in the leadership of redesigning and improving system of healthcare in the United States. The IOM report shows that there are many levels of nursing involvement in the transformation of healthcare. One main and prominent focus is Education. “Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training” (The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, 2011, pg.163) This key statement addresses a barrier cited by the IOM noting the high turnover rate among newly graduated nurses, illuminating the reality that the field of nursing is losing talented new graduates before that talent is developed to it’s fullest. The report promotes greater emphasis on nurse residency programs, enhancing the experience of the transition from nursing student to graduated nurse. The development of nurse residency programs would help nurses develop the skills needed for the demanding position of being a professional nurse. Many new nurses are told ‘the first year is the worst, and don’t be...
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... A thesis submitted In partial fulfilment of requirements for school year to the school of economics University of East Anglia April 14, 2013 Words: 3167 The main analysis of academy school Abstract: the labour government first set up the academies programme in the beginning of 2002. Firstly has given academy status to 203 English secondary schools.1560schools have responded positively to interested in academy status. The coalition government’s policy on academy schools is targeted on the schools with better pupils. Key words: policy, equality, GCSE, academy freedom Outline Thesis statement: this thesis give out a brave introducing to the academy school inside great Britain, and the history of the program processing , then talk about the characteristics inside the academy school, and the changes during the government change. At last state the influence of the academy school. Introduction: An academy school is one kind of school that funding by both private sponsor and public funds, but...
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...LDP616: GENDER ISSUES IN DEVELOPMENT Gender Mainstreaming The role of the state in mainstreaming gender issues and concerns in development Nyabochwa, Mary Mamo 1st February 2011 Lecture: Dr. Isaac Were. Table of Contents ACRONYMS/ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................................................................... 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................ 5 1.0 INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................. 6 1.1 Why gender issues .............................................................................................................................. 6 2.0 GENDER MAINSTREAMING .......................................................................................................... 8 2.1 Clarity on certain aspects of gender mainstreaming ......................................................................... 8 2.2 some key misconceptions................................................................................................................ 10 3.0 IMPLEMENTATION OF GENDER MAINSTREAMING ........................................................... 11 3.1 Definition of “gender mainstreaming” ............................................................................................. 11 3.2 Practical steps...
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...Unit 2: ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND RELATIONSHIPS IN LIFELONG LEARNING 1.1. Summarise key aspects of legislation, regulatory requirements and codes of practice related to own role and responsibilities. It is important for all teaching staff and any educational establishment where teaching and training take place keep up to date with all relevant Legislations and Code of practice to ensure they are remaining current with their knowledge and skills, and with any relevant changes or updates that have taken place (Harris 1999). However these will differ depending on the subject, the context and environment within which teaching takes place. These legislations include: • Equality Act (2010) brings disability, sex, race and other grounds of discrimination within one piece of legislation. The Act provides rights for people not to be directly discriminated against or harassed because they have an association with a disabled person or because they are wrongly perceived as disabled. The Act ensures all people are treated equally regardless of their race, sexual orientation, religion and belief, maternity and pregnancy, marriage or civil partnership. • The Data protection Act 1998 is to make provision for the regulation for the processing of information relating to individuals, including the obtaining, holding, use of disclosure of such information. The Human Right Act 1998 is meant to give people the right and freedom to live the way they choose to be. ...
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...DEVELOPING AN INCLUSIVE CURRICULUM: “EVERY TEACHER MATTERS” Keith A. Humphreys Centre for Advancement in Special Education University of Hong Kong The development of inclusive education practices have led to worldwide discussion of how best to deliver a more equal education opportunity for all. In Hong Kong this has led to the development of the concept of an inclusive curriculum for special schools. This paper looks at the implications of writing an inclusive curriculum that has common curriculum content for all pupils that is based on the State curriculum. Over a four year period, nine special schools for pupils of different designated disability collectively pooled their resources to work for one common curriculum goal. In doing so they discovered that the biggest challenge was to the teacher’s hearts and minds. Over 130 teachers were involved in the project. It required a significant paradigm shift in the way the teachers thought both about what they taught and how they taught. It required a common team effort within and across each school. It was apparent that providing equal opportunity to raise standards of education for the all the pupils required the recognition that every teacher had to change their way of thinking, every teacher matters. Introduction Four years ago, nine special schools embarked on a development program to work out an inclusive curriculum. When they met the schools were all designated with different disability responsibilities...
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... System (SEC. 103) - INTL403103_2012W Submitted to : Patrick Ellwood MILLENIUM GOALS ARGUMENTS AGAINST MILLENIUM GOALS 1. For the Attainment of the Millenium Goals, there are no specific set standards on budgetary imperatives. These goals are just a set of policies. They basically lack power to be implemented in the individual countries. Based on antecedents, policies in many developing countries lack implementation.(1) 2. MDGs were very narrow in conception as they are themselves derived from specific targets such as education goals focused mainly on primary education, ignores secondary and higher education, whereas health goals focused only on three aspects of health associated with maternal mortality, child mortality, and specific diseases, Non communicable diseases have no mention whatsoever in the MDGs whereas these are major causes of morbidity and mortality.(2) 3. It must be agreed that the MDGs are unclear on the concept of measurement, if viewed objectively. The health goals for 2015 sound quantitative, but for most of them, their quantification is irretrievably flawed. The trends that the health goals referred to are either immeasurable or were not measured properly from the 1990 baseline year onward. The UN's own current or former staff has said that the trends are immeasurable or lack...
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...endured by those some sixty/seventy years ago have improved the quality of life for many African Americans today. Throughout the Civil Rights Movement, great black leaders stepped up to help secure equality for all races and equally voting rights among, among other things. Some of the more recognizable names were Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and Rosa Parks. They may have had different ideas and ways to end segregation but they all contributed to improving African-American life in America politically, socially, and economically over the latter half of the twentieth century. To look at the political changes of blacks over the years, look no further than the White House. Without the influence of the Civil Rights movement, Barack Obama would never be the President, and politicians like Herman Cain, Condoleezza Rice, and Colin Powell would never have made it as far as they did in their political careers. These are just a few of the many politicians who have benefitted from the political empowerment of African Americans. All of these achievements have stemmed from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Civil Rights Act was part of the first phase of the Civil Rights movement. The Act was a Congressional law that nullified Southern states “Separate but Equal” laws once and for all. Now “Separate but Equal” had been abolished a decade earlier by Brown v Board of Education, but some Southern states had chosen not to abide by it and continued...
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