UAA NEWS FEED: UAA Has Set The 2013 Goal of Equipping 500 Students With All They Need To Attend School- School Supply Program

UAA Has Set The 2013 Goal of Equipping 500 Students With All They Need To Attend School- School Supply Program

The absolutely poor in developing countries usually have low education levels. Some may still not even have access to primary education or may not complete their primary education. Universal primary education is therefore crucially important to reduce poverty. However, there are also examples of countries where the rapid expansion of education has resulted in lowering education quality, suggesting that countries face a trade-off between quantity and quality in the short to medium term. In such cases, the impact of education on poverty reduction may be small, and a lot of effort must go into protecting and enhancing the quality of education.

In developed countries there are sometimes groups of students who are excluded from the social mainstream. Some of the factors associated with this include poverty

(especially relative poverty), language, ethnic minority status, or immigrant status (Schnepf, 2004). Although these factors may all separately contribute to social disadvantage and social exclusion, they often interact. Thus social exclusion is a common feature of many educationally ‘at risk’ students, both poor and non-poor.

Social mobility varies across countries in the developed world. Generally, education improves job prospects for poor groups, although upward social mobility is more difficult for groups that are also otherwise socially marginalized, such as immigrant communities or ethnic minorities. Even among such groups though, education lowers poverty, but the returns to education may be smaller than for non-minority members due to discrimination.