Just heard this on NPR this morning http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=126828775&m=126848215
In one interview, they talk to a young man who is a trained teacher but doesn't have the $6000 bribe money necessary to get a teaching job. He hopes that he will save up enough to pay this in 2 years or so. This certainly makes it more difficult to reach the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Universal Education goal when there are such huge barriers to entry for qualified teachers in a country like India where access to education is desperately needed. How prevalent is this practice? How many qualified teachers are prevented from teaching? How many hundreds of kids are not being educated as a result? Is there anything that can be done about this situation? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
