educational+Political+Impact

Political Impact:

Somalia: In Somalia, it’s kind of a circle with education impacting politics and politics impacting education. Somalia is one of the most dangerous countries in the world due to all of the fighting. This makes schooling intense and difficult, especially because some of the kids are fighting. The years of civil war between the government and opposing Islamic groups has greatly impacted the amount and effectiveness of schooling children receive. The fighting is actually so intense that teachers are somewhat frowned upon in Somalia; it takes away the potential for children to join local militias instead of getting an education. Most of this is the government’s fault; it moves schools to safer locations, sometimes multiple times a year, due to the fact that the fighting that they’re causing has put the school, the teachers, and the students all in danger. This has also caused over 2 million Somalians to be displaced in the country itself and in others around it. In turn, all of this has impacted politics as well, although it seems impossible for things to get much worse. Because of all of the political and governmental problems (they don’t know how to spend money properly, they’re funding war, teachers don’t show up to teach, schools move constantly, etc.) and because of the famine that’s currently ravishing most of Somalia, residents of this country receive little education (30% average attendance for primary schooling). The fact that schooling is so scarce and costs money that they don’t have makes this believable. The way it impacts politics is if you can’t receive schooling, whether you want to or not, you will not be able to read or write or do most of the things you need to do to communicate and think well. If you become like this there is no way you’ll be able to make it in politics; and if an entire generation (or two-thirds of a generation) is being brought up in this fashion, Somalia doesn’t even have a hope for future politics.This means that countries can do basically whatever they want to them because they have no real way to respond other than violence, and they’re already in a war with rebel groups.

Seychelles: In Seychelles, politics are greatly impacted by education. Due to the equality and education women get there, 23.5% of the representation is females. The key to women even joining politics at all is education. Education is significantly different from other regions in Seychelles. This country has a higher literacy rate and primary school attendance rate, which is currently over 99%. The government puts alot of money aside for education; they have their own primary university, they pay for all tuition and books for primary education. It’s taken very seriously here. It seems like the reason Seychelles takes education so seriously is because they want to be outstanding from other African countries; good education makes them look better and probably brings in more outside funding help from other countries. They were even recognized and praised by the University of Cambridge for their academic excellence. According to the minister of education, entering the IGCSE was a good idea because it greatly helps out students in secondary education. It almost ensures that they receive international awards and are qualified for them. It’s not just the teachers’ teachings that are making these students what they are though. The students all really want to learn and continue on to post-primary education, and it helps that they can save money during primary school so that they can use it for secondary education. Even in 2005 the overall passing rate was 98%. That’s better than America! That’s also a 1% improvement from the previous year. If they can continue improving, the political system will be even better off than they are now, men or women, and the government will gain more and more funding for students to go to primary schooling. They might even be able to pay for special primary educated students to continue on to post-primary education, like a scholarship basically. This is all because of kids just going to school. Despite the kids will to go to school, there is also a federal law saying that students must go to school for at least ten years; whether it’s age 5-15 or age 6-16. This is politics rubbing off on the education here and the students, teachers, and even parents have easily returned the favor back to politics, giving them funding and a purpose to continue being serious about education.