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Running head: DEVELOPMENT AID TO THE EDUCATION
Development aid to the education
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Development aid to the education
Introduction
Education provides children with an opportunity to get out of poverty and gives them
hope of a brighter future. According to UNESCO (2013), there are approximately 264 million
school gong children in the world that have no access to education. This is due to poverty,
discrimination, effects of climate change and conflicts. UNESCO has a policy and a program that
aims at giving each child an opportunity to get an education and complete school despite where
they come from. Developing countries have the highest number of children who do not have
access to education. This is caused by many interrelated factors, but the chief factor the high cost
of education and the high poverty index has made education unaffordable to extremely poor
families. Education Aid is given to these countries to improve access and quality of education
(Riddell & Niño-Zarazúa, 2016). There are people who argue that foreign aids are not effective
and have not helped to improve access to education in developing nations. On the other hand,
others argue that foreign education development aids have significantly improved the quality of
education. In this paper, I will discuss the impact of financial aid on the quality of education,
several education aid interventions which have been adopted, what has worked and what has
failed and what needs to be done. Financial aid to developing nations has failed to improve the
quality of education and should be substituted with cash transfers and educational vouchers.
The issue
Donors and other Non-governmental Organizations such as UNESCO have invested
billions and billions of dollars as development education aid to the developing countries to
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improve the quality of education offered to children. However, that aims seems not to have been
achieving necessitating for other viable alternatives. One of the Millennium Development Goals
is free to access to quality education but developing nations cannot achieve the goal without
financial aid. Financial help given to these countries is meant to built schools and increase
access to education by subsidizing or abolishing tuition fees (Riddell & Niño-Zarazúa, 2016).
African countries receive education aid in the form of projects, grants, budget support and
technical assistance. The finical aid has not registered a positive outcome when it comes to
quality of education. We are in universal agreement that each child should receive an education,
but at the current state of things, it is unlikely to be possible. Despite, receiving development aid
to education it is not obvious that children in sub-Saharan Africa and other poverty-stricken
communities will complete the ten years of school. This is because; development aid to
education does not consider socio-economic factors such as poverty and discrimination that stops
children from attending schools.
The main issue of the debate is the best aid interventions that can be used enhance quality
and access to education in developing nations. The development aid to education can make a
difference in the education sector in the developing nations. However, how its effectiveness is
measured is the born of contention. I believe that building more schools, providing furniture,
employing teachers and purchasing textbooks does not guarantee that children from extremely
low-income families will attend schools and receive a quality education. Therefore, the question
that is being raised is "what education aid interventions should be adopted to ensure that even
children from poor families go to school and complete education?” According to UNESCO
(2013), many children go to school but do not learn. This is because the ability of a child to learn
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is influenced by many factors some of which are not taken care of by development aid to
education. If a child is present in a class which is fully equipped with necessary learning material
and taught by highly trained teachers, but her stomach is empty or is feeling sick, then the child
cannot learn. It is important to note that quality of education is measured by the product which is
the literacy level amongst many other factors. Now, how can we conclude that a child has
received quality education if he or she is unable to write and write? Financial aid when
correctly applied can help to improve the education system in developing countries and improve
the overall return on education. A high return on education can only be achieved when all
children can access quality education; other returns on education ...