bba year 2, business society question 1 (1.1, 1.2 & 1.3) NMENT 4: BUSINESS AND S
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bba year 2, business society
question 1 (1.1, 1.2 & 1.3)
NMENT 4: BUSINESS AND SOCIETY ASSIGNME QUESTION 1 elsewhere 0en before the "FeesMustFall" (25) campaign, educational reform has been a topical subject in South Africa and reform 1 Discuss the concept of "rights" and how account of the rights of all the stakeholders involved. Discuss the trade-offs involved -f of the country as a whole is not affected. Could education be regarded as a commodity like any other and the resources allocated by market mechanisms, or should resource allocation be determined by government directive? educational reform could take place in a way that will take into 1.2 or example: In what way can it be done to ensure that the food security 1.3 bove as one question and deal with it in one essay (with appropriate sub-headings). (25)Explanation / Answer
Education as a Fundamental Right
Rights are fundamental privileges that every human being should possess while living in a civilised society. Rights include things such as a right to life, right to have access to food, right to access to clean air and water. It is argued that human evolution has reached a stage and for overall betterment of the humanity, access to education should be regarded as a fundamental right and hence Right to Education should be guaranteed by the law of the land. So in order to ensure that education is accessible to all and it should remain economically feasible for students to have access to education while being commercially remunerative, various reforms are needed. The strict government control and granting of permits to select few universities to impart education should be done away with. Technology should be used for wide scale education dissemination and MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses) should be used to impart education. Online degrees should be made on par with degrees offered by universities based on off line and classroom based teaching. This would bring down the cost of education while at the same time making it accessible to a wider audience.
Trade off
Subsidizing education is obviously a solution which can broaden the scope of its coverage. However, too much subsidy on education would mean that useful subsidy from other programmes are diverted away. So a calibrated approach is needed wherein technology intervention is the key driver with limited government intervention on the financial front but ensuring that quality of teaching remains good. So trade-offs involved is maintaining quality while increasing scope and there should not be any deterioration in the quality of education while trying to expand its scale.
Education as a commodity ?
Education cannot be treated as a plain commodity as it has components of service involved and the way teaching is imparted is very important. Thus it cannot be left alone to market forces alone and government has to intervene in a calibrated manner so as to maintain the sanctity of the educational framework and not distort the market. It should be leading the way in adopting innovation which can make education delivery smoother and more accessible to all.
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