Examples of Universal Primary Education in the following topics:
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- Education is becoming increasingly international.
- In Europe, for example, the Socrates-Erasmus Program stimulates exchanges across European universities.
- Universal Primary Education is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals, and great improvements have been achieved in the past decade, yet a great deal remains to be done.
- However, despite all these important achievements, the world is currently not on course to achieve its target of universal primary education by 2015.
- Education is becoming increasingly international.
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- Currently, there are more than 75 million children around the world of primary school age who are not in school.
- Education is becoming increasingly international.
- In Europe, for example, the Socrates-Erasmus Program stimulates exchanges across European universities.
- Many universities and organizations are creating open educational resources that self-motivated students can access anywhere and at any time.
- School children at Imperial Primary School in Eastridge, Mitchell's Plain (Cape Town, South Africa)
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- In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional qualifications or credentials from a university or college.
- Perhaps the most significant difference between primary school and secondary school teaching in the United States is the relationship between teachers and children.
- In primary schools, each class has a teacher who stays with them for most of the week and will teach them the whole curriculum.
- The relationship between children and their teachers tends to be closer in the primary school where they act as form tutor, specialist teacher, and surrogate parent during the course of the day.
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- Entry of women into the higher professions like law and medicine was delayed in most countries due to women being denied entry to universities and qualification for degrees; for example, Cambridge University only fully validated degrees for women late in 1947, and even then only after much opposition and acrimonious debate.
- Some examples of the ways in which gender affects a field include: prohibitions or restrictions on members of a particular gender entering a field or studying a field; discrimination within a field, including wage, management, and prestige hierarchies; expectation that mothers, rather than fathers, should be the primary childcare providers.
- For instance, women were completely forbidden access to Cambridge University until 1868, and were encumbered with a variety of restrictions until 1987, when the university adopted an equal opportunity policy.
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- Educational attainment is tied to social class, with upper class individuals acquiring higher degrees from more prestigious schools.
- Many prestigious colleges and universities in the U.S. are known to give preference to "legacy students," or the children of alumni.
- Education is a major component of social class, both directly and indirectly.
- Educational inequality is one factor that perpetuates the class divide across generations.
- Germane to to university and college admissions (particularly in the United States), this practice emerged after World War I, primarily in response to the resulting immigrant influx.
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- Among modern sociologists, the American upper-middle class is defined using income, education, and occupation as primary indicators.
- Educational attainment is a distinguishing feature of the upper-middle class.
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- By the mid-1800s, several women's colleges had been established, and many were coupled with men's universities as coordinate colleges.
- In the 1970s and 1980s, some of these coordinate colleges were absorbed into the larger university to create coeducational (coed) universities with both men and women.
- Despite the integration of men and women in university classrooms, women continue to face gender-based disparities and biases.
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- People in a secondary group interact on a less personal level than in a primary group, and their relationships are generally temporary rather than long lasting.
- In contrast to primary groups, secondary groups don't have the goal of maintaining and developing the relationships themselves.
- The distinction between primary and secondary groups was originally proposed by Charles Cooley.
- A university class, an athletic team, and workers in an office all likely form secondary groups.
- Primary groups can form within secondary groups as relationships become more personal and close.
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- Education is the process by which society transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, customs and values from one generation to another.
- Education is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people is transmitted from one generation to the next.
- Education is perceived as an endeavor that enables children to develop according to their unique needs and potential.
- Education also performs another crucial function.
- School serves as a primary site of education, including the inculcation of "hidden curricula" of social values and norms.
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- Educational attainment, an indicator of social class, can predict political participation.
- Bush and John Kerry both came from wealthy families, held graduate degrees, and had attended Yale University, an elite Ivy League institution.
- Educational attainment, an indicator of social class, can predict one's level of political participation.