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Distance Learning to the Rescue of Drop-Out Students
June 2009 was always set to be an important month in the higher education calendar. It was this month 40 years ago that The Open University was born, and established itself as a pioneering distance learning institution that was available to anyone anywhere. However, for some June 2009 will focus more on the thousands of students who have come to be known as “Generation Crunch”, a high number of graduates who have paid the most for their higher education to date and are due to enter a highly competitive recession-hit workplace.
However, moves from Gordon Brown and the Labour Government have been announced that are set to realign the focus on the positive aspects of higher education – and The Open University and other distance learning institutions in particular. According to The Guardian, the prime minister has announced a multimillion pound plan that will help students who have dropped out of university to complete their degrees via distance learning and online.
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Literacy and Economic Development
An Educated country is a developed country. Literacy level plays a major role in the economic development of a nation. If people are literate, then there will be minimum violence in the country. Literacy leads to good employment opportunities. If literacy level is high in a nation, then there will be more number of entrepreneurs and the flow of money will be huge. If new enterprises come up, the economy of the country grows with the amount of tax collected. New enterprises lead to more employment generation and in turn reduce the unemployment rate. A Nation with a low unemployment rate will develop very rapidly. Let’s elaborate on the above.
Literacy level is directly related to economic development. The cycle goes like this Literacy leads to rise of entrepreneurs and new enterprises which in turn provide employment and there will be huge demand for employment. When there is demand for employment, there will be a huge rise in the number of schools and colleges. When there are more number of schools, public can get easy access to schools and colleges at affordable costs. In this manner all will get education and the literacy level will go up. The demand in the industry is directly relational to the demand in the education sector and in turn directly related to literacy level and vice versa. This is a circular flow of activities depicted in the diagram below. The literacy level will make the nation in demand. Recently, the economic growth of INDIA and CHINA are mainly due to the rapidly growing literacy level in these countries.
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