Dear Vtaylor, This trend of bribery is very common especially in countries where jobs are scarce. This scenario you heard and read is one of its kind in the globe. this practice is very common especially here in Africa.
$6000 is a lot of money for someone who is looking for a job. Where can he get that money to start with? In Zambia, especially in the minining industry this is very common. I overheard someone was told to give a contractor some money so that he can be given a job. Where are we going? What is happening? What solutions can we put across so that this trend can stop? These are some of the questions that are ringing in the heards of troubled people. Regards On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Vtaylor <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] -- Misheck Mutuzana NPoC ZAMBIA - Space Generation Email: [email protected], [email protected] Skype: misheckmutuzana +260 955-418926 +260 966-418926 +260 977-418926 -- 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]
