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Selene Biffi
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"Youth Perspectives on Education" - Online Youth Forum
May 3, 2004 - 01:21 AM
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Name: Youth Perspectives on Education
Topics: Access/Right to Education,Alternative Education,Education,Youth Rights
Description and Goals:
This group, moderated by and for youth (those aged 15-25), it's a forum aiming at gathering insights, perspectives and thoughts about education and related topics.
Some of the issues to be considered are as follows:
1. How does education, or lack of it, influences your life and the one of other young people in your country?
2. What does education mean to you?
3. What is the relationship among formal/informal education? What the outcomes?
4. What do you think about the privatization of education?
5. What ideas would you suggest to help improve the educational system in your country and worldwide?
The Forum will run throughout June. All the material sent will then be summarised and presented during the second session of the International Youth Parliament, Sydney 2004.
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samba yonga
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Re: "Youth Perspectives on Education" - Online Youth Forum
June 22, 2004 - 11:15 AM
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Good day Selene
Only managed to get in recently I apologise for not getting in earlier.
What does education mean to me? a difficult and simple question. it means being able to sit in front of this computer and air my views. It means having the opportunity to meet with like minded young people to change the world. It means not being defined by access but by ability. It means realising how access and not ability differentiates me from the person who is homeless on the street. It means using my knowledge to make a better world for the less priveleged.
I will just give an overview of the education system in my country. In Zambia nearly 80% of the population live in abject poverty and 10% of those probably have had basic education.
A country where the education system has collapsed in the last ten years marred by political, petty issues and lack of focus by the leaders. The pass rates have dropped in schools, attendance and enrollment are at the lowest. Young people have no education and they are roaming the streets. Since the free education policy was dropped and fee paying was introduced the system has gone totally heywire twenty years from now we will have illiterates roaming the streets instead of learned people not because they are not intelligent enough but because they have not been given access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.
Samba Yonga
IYP2004 Delegate
Lusaka Zambia
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