10-01-2011, 10:30 PM
The picture of schools that serve the poor in developing nations is more diverse than presented in the current posts.
There are schools that started out as non-accredited schools in tertiary education with the special mission of offering the best of quality education they could provide to students from the many slums that you find in the bigger towns of developing nations. In the first years of their existence, they may have "only" offered religious programmes. Later, they may have also decided to include programmes of a more secular nature like teacher training in a special field - it is obvious that religious programmes alone do not and cannot satisfy all the complex needs of societies in developing nations. Including programmes of a more secular nature may eventually make the school decide to pursue government-recognised accreditation, which is always costly. If the school is profit-oriented, it will have tuition fees increased for students, and it will continue to "sell" education for business profit. If a school is not profit-oriented, it will have a network of supporting sponsors that will allow the school to exist and do its good job for those in need.
There are schools that started out as non-accredited schools in tertiary education with the special mission of offering the best of quality education they could provide to students from the many slums that you find in the bigger towns of developing nations. In the first years of their existence, they may have "only" offered religious programmes. Later, they may have also decided to include programmes of a more secular nature like teacher training in a special field - it is obvious that religious programmes alone do not and cannot satisfy all the complex needs of societies in developing nations. Including programmes of a more secular nature may eventually make the school decide to pursue government-recognised accreditation, which is always costly. If the school is profit-oriented, it will have tuition fees increased for students, and it will continue to "sell" education for business profit. If a school is not profit-oriented, it will have a network of supporting sponsors that will allow the school to exist and do its good job for those in need.
