Escalating violence and indiscriminate attacks place children in extreme danger. Many witness or experience acts of extreme brutality. They are the ones who will rebuild the future of Syria, and if they remain without education, you can imagine what the future of Syria will be.
During times of armed conflict and insecurity, the ability for students to access educational facilities can be an important source of protection. Safe schools provide life-saving information, mitigate the psychosocial impact of war and protect children from trafficking and recruitment by armed groups.
The ability to access a safe place to study and learn can provide students with a sense of normalcy, routine and calm amid the chaos of war. In the long term, a good education also promotes peace and post-conflict resolution as young people develop the skills and qualifications needed to build a life for themselves and prosperity for their communities without resorting to violence.
I want be a commercial pilot and fly away from here. And yet, a large number of Syrian refugee children are not in school, despite our best efforts. Education is the route out of poverty for many children. It gives them a chance to gain the knowledge and skills needed to improve their lives. But millions of children never see the inside of a classroom.
For many families the long-term benefits of sending their children to school are outweighed by the immediate need to send them to work or keep them at home to help with chores. Children miss out on school because their families need them to earn money. But by sacrificing their education, they become trapped in a cycle of poverty. Today, 57 million children are failing to learn, simply because they cannot attend school.
However, access is only part of the educational crisis — a lack of quality education is holding back many children too. Across the world, million young people leave school without the skills they need to thrive, plus an estimated million adults — 64 percent of whom are women — lack the most basic reading and writing skills. The first step to improving quality is to ensure that there are enough teachers in classrooms. Many countries, particularly developing countries, face an acute shortage of qualified teachers.
Globally, an additional 1. This shortfall will rise to 3. This shortage stems from the position of teachers within society, where they are often unsupported and undervalued. In some countries, teachers are paid poorly and sometimes irregularly, with little support for professional development or training. The quality of an education system is only as good as the quality of its teachers.
Some of these children have no access to schooling. The children leave school without having acquired the basics, which greatly impedes the social and economic development of these countries. Today, it is girls who have the least access to education. This problem occurs most frequently in the Arab States, in central Asia and in Southern and Western Asia and is principally explained by the cultural and traditional privileged treatment given to males.
Girls are destined to work in the family home, whereas boys are entitled to receive an education. In sub-Saharan Africa, over 12 million girls are at risk of never receiving an education.
Even more alarming, certain countries such as Afghanistan or Somalia make no effort to reduce the gap between girls and boys with regard to education. Although many developing countries may congratulate themselves on dramatically reducing inequality between girls and boys in education, a lot of effort is still needed in order to achieve a universal primary education. Advocate for the protection of child rights by calling for an end to fires and deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest!
Skip to content. Causes of lack of education Marginalisation and poverty For many children who still do not have access to education, it is notable because of persisting inequality and marginalization.
Financial deficit of developing countries Universal primary education is a major issue and a sizeable problem for many states. Poverty Trap: The inability to escape poverty due to lack of resources.
Children of poorer people are more likely to be poor themselves. This is often known as the intergenerational poverty trap. One of the only ways to escape the poverty trap is through education. While the exact figures are disputed, higher education appears to lead to higher incomes:. A report from the University of Stellenbosch found that children in South Africa who attend poorer public schools suffer from low teacher quality and lack of resources.
This can keep children in poverty despite the fact that they attended school. Everywhere in the world, jobs are given out to the most qualified people. Educational credentials are one major way in which employers choose between job applicants. People who have not been educated may have to resort to terrible types of work just to survive. In a world of limited jobs, those with an education get first pickings of the safer and more secure work.
Girls in the third world who lack education are some of the most vulnerable. These children — rather than going to school — need to work to feed their families. According to The Guardian , sexual and physical abuse takes place in these sweatshops regularly. Gender inequality can be a massive barrier to education for women. Countries where women are less educated continue to perpetuate gender inequalities from one generation to the next.
Women who are less educated tend to have babies at a younger age. Women who have children after receiving a secondary school education tend to have healthier babies.
Furthermore, women with a lower education are less likely to raise their voice when it comes to political and community issues that affect them.
Education is also a space where gender stereotypes are challenged, which may also lead to decreased gender inequality. If girls and boys are educated side-by-side, such stereotypes may also disintegrate. Countries that have a more educated population will have more sustainable economic growth over the long term than those with a less educated population.
This is particularly evident now that we live in a globalized world. Nations are competing against each other for economic dominance. The nation attracts higher-paying jobs in growth industries. By contrast, nations that are poorer have to attract lower-paying industries such as manufacturing.
While many third-world countries can grow their economies rapidly by lowering labor standards and attracting industry, there is a cap on this growth. They know that if they want to continue to grow at a rapid rate, they need to transition to the high-paying industries of the future.
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