Inequality In Education System In Malaysia

Causes of educational inequality include poor infrastructure and quality of teachers in rural and remote.

Inequality in education system in malaysia. This is due to different subjects being taught in both primary and secondary schools. Inequality in educational attainment may contribute inequality in income distribution. Often disadvantaged students lag because of their parents inability to offer them the extra tuition or to pay for them to continue with their tertiary education. Statistically speaking when inequality within primary education increases by 1 the average gdp per capita would decrease by rm149 whereas it would decrease by rm323 for secondary education.

The system has used the same curriculum since 2008 which itself is only a slightly edited version of the curriculum from 2001. Educational inequality in malaysia. The study on the relationship between public subsidy and educational inequality was first initiated by psacharopoulos 1977a and later by ram 1982. While malaysia scored a 985 for educational attainment girls still do not have equal economic opportunities or political empowerment.

This paper attempts to analyze trend of income inequality and poverty in malaysia. No wonder some youths today feel the lack of equality and a sense of solidarity in their environment at home school college and university. Malaysia ranked 106 in the world with a score of 0 666 where 1 00 indicates gender parity and 0 00 indicates the worst inequality. The borgen project also noted that while funding inequality puts small rural schools at a particular disadvantage the outdated curriculum does a disservice to all thai schools.

Ethnicity inequality and higher education in malaysia viswanathan selvaratnam some sociologists contend that the disadvantaged the poor and minorities do poorly in education largely because of the inequitable distribution of resources for education. One of the major concerned by the government in line to reduce poverty and income inequality is the role of education. Therefore the fundamental problem of income inequality is the inequality of education.