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This business report will analyse and explain certain significant areas in business environment in reference to the Sydney IMAX Theatre. We will look at the business life cycle, the main elements of the business’s environment, the internal and external influences on the business and the social responsibilities of the business. Classify the business and summarise its stage in the business life cycle, include a brief history. The Sydney IMAX Theatre is a large privately owned business.

IMAX is a proprietary limited business; this means that IMAX has a separate legal existence, distinct from its owners, managers and operators. It also has its own income tax liability, separate to your personal income tax. Effectively, a company has the powers of an individual and can:

• Own and dispose of property and other assets
• Enter into contracts
• Sue and be sued

The Sydney IMAX Theatre is currently in the maturity stage of its product life cycle. As the business was officially opened in 1996 it has well surpassed its Establishment and growth phase. The company is keeping its sales steady by taking advantage of its homogeneous product and the inelastic demand for its product. IMAX is currently owned by Worlds Biggest Screens Pty Ltd. The history of Sydney IMAX Theatre all starts with the IMAX Corporation that was established in 1967. IMAX Corporation started out as the industry leader in the creation and production of high end rides, attractions and projection technology. The company then went on to be a world leader in the production and design of surround sound technology.

The Sydney IMAX Theatre was opened in 1996 and was instantly booming with a very short establishment phase. IMAX very quickly became a tourist attraction and a must see for all people living in the Sydney area. IMAX then saw a large chain of theatres open all over Australia in 4 years putting a great strain on the company. As a result Cinema Plus Ltd was liquidated in 2000 because of cash flow problems. This Liquidation saw all cinemas except Sydney close and saw World’s Biggest Screens Ltd devote all its time and energy on Sydney’s IMAX theatre.  The Main Elements of the business environment.

The Sydney IMAX Theatre is located in on the waterfront in the heart of Sydney’s Darling Harbor. This location has many benefits as it is an entertainment hotspot. The attractions include many restaurants, bars and cafes, the Sydney Aquarium, Sydney Wildlife World, The Australian National Maritime Museum, The Chinese Gardens of Friendship and The Powerhouse Museum. IMAX uses its unique location to its advantage by building special relationships with other businesses nearby therefore providing extra advertising and offering customers special deals that will provide extra sales.

The IMAX provides its customers with the biggest cinema screen in the world. With this large screen comes a vast array of new possibilities that enhances the picture quality and the viewer’s experience. This is the reason for the logo… Movies show you, IMAX takes you there. The IMAX provides customers a wide variety of films that are from many different genres. This wide variety increases the target market therefore having a larger and broader variety of people. The IMAX also includes a snack bar located in the facility that provides consumers with food and drink.

This not only increases profit per person but also attracts unintended customers.  Internal and External influences on the Sydney IMAX Theatre External influences: Influences that a business cannot control .Financial markets: exchange rate changes impact profit income as film costs and royalties are based in US dollars.

Economic factors: An economic downturn can influence people to save and not spend. People cut costs on going out therefore reducing the amount of people going to IMAX. An economic downturn also reduces the amount of tourists in the theatre

• Technological: advances in IMAX technology may produce whole new range of films that may or may not attract new audiences.
• Social: changing patterns of leisure will impact greatly on attendance; varies also with the time of year and cycles of school holidays.
• Geographic: changes to theatre access, parking or public transport will impact on attendance.
• Consumer: flexibility in scheduling allows the theatre to respond to changing consumer demand for films (reputation and word-of-mouth is very important is influencing the success of any new film).
• Internal Influences: Influences that a business can control
• Technological: expansion of e-commerce in marketing activities for example the online ticket purchase system has been extremely effective since its introduction at the start of 2004.
• New Systems & procedures: introduction EFTPOS and credit card payment has increased sales. New timetabling methods allow teaches to give their students more time in the theatre.
• Financial: New budgets will affect how a new film is marketed and how much advertisement it gets
• Product: changes in programming and film selection will influence attendance levels.

The development of new products such as education talks will broaden the theatre market. The widening of the target market can potentially create new streams of people visiting the theatre. Both the Internal and external influences on a business are very important in a business’s survival. The IMAX needs to focus on improving their internal weaknesses without forgetting to figure out a way to stabilise its strengths. Only then will the business succeed.

The Ethical and Social Responsibilities of The Sydney IMAX Theatre

The main purpose of business is to generate maximum returns for its owners and shareholders. So therefore the business has the responsibility of pursuing all activities that enhance profitability and increase the value of the business for the owners and shareholders. But a business also has responsibilities to their consumers, local communities and society as a whole. It is not right just to operate within the letter of the law. Businesses should also try and serve their local community and help its mployees lead better lives. IMAX has the social responsibility for all of its actions, their consequences and impacts on the community and the business itself. IMAX should examine every decision they make not just based on profitability but on long term ethical business value and social responsibility. The Sydney IMAX Theatre has the responsibility of introducing policies in place that take care of your employees and the local community, long term this will still enhance their business brand and over time lead to higher profitability.

The IMAX shows its ethical responsibility by only partnering with business’s that are also ethically and socially responsible. As a business ethical and social responsibility is a great way to serve the community, advertise and plan ahead for the future. In recent studies it is shown that quite frankly ethical and social responsibility sells.

Conclusion

In conclusion The Sydney IMAX Theatre is in its maturity phase of the business life cycle, it is a large privately owned proprietary limited business. Its vast array of films caters for a wide variety of target markets therefore increasing entries. The IMAX uses internal influences such as product and financial influences and is faced with external influences such as financial markets and economic factors. IMAX as a whole is slowly working towards gaining the public’s respect through ethical and social responsibilities which include pairing up with other ethically and socially responsible businesses, taking consequences for its actions and creating policies that specifically intend to take care of employees and the local community.

First and first, I am Rubatarshne d/o Vasu as a pupil from Kirkby International College would take this chance to show my profound gratitude and deep respects to my guide Mr. Danapalan for his model counsel, monitoring and changeless encouragement throughout this assignment. The approval, aid and guidance given by God towards my assignment enable me to finish my assignment successfully.

I would besides wish to thank my friends in assisting me by giving support. In this assignment I have gain abundant cognition and experiences. I have increased my degree of assurance when I met headmistress, senior aid and instructors. As a hereafter instructor, I besides learned that there are two types of activity that had been conducted in school which are school activities and category activities. Besides that, a strong bond of relationship formed between me and my former instructors. I would wish to thank one time once more to my lector for giving me a undertaking sing on National Philosophy of instruction ( NPE ) .

Last, I would wish to thank to my instructors that willing to pass clip with me to carry on interview. Teachers such as Mrs. Vasugi, Mrs. Chitra and Mrs. Devanagi from Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil, Hicom, Shah Alam and Mrs. Rahinun bt Mohd Noor from Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Uda, Alor Star, Kedah Darul Aman. I learnt about their instruction and acquisition method which will be utile for me in hereafter.

National Philosophy of Education

Education play a polar function in Malaysia particularly politically, economically, and socially of all time since the independency of Malaya in 1957 and the formation of Malaysia in 1963. Since so, several instruction policies were being drafted and altered to run into the instruction demands of the people of Malaysia from clip to clip. In 1988, National Philosophy of Education ( NPE ) was formulated based on thoughts and rule of policy paperss. It is guide for all educational activities in Malaysia and sets the values and rules of the Malayan instruction system from primary to the third degree.

( NPE ) consist of several elements to bring forth persons who are intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, and physically balanced and harmonic. The first component of ( NPE ) is instruction as an ongoing attempt that getting and reassigning cognition accomplishments and baronial values which start from an early age boulder clay decease. It is critical to determine personality of kids which will help them to accommodate assorted types of alterations. Following, is ( NPE ) besides develop single potencies. Each human being has their ain hidden endowments which can be nurtured and developed, abilities that should be tapped, and enhanced through societal interaction with environment. Belief and obeisance to God is another component of ( NPE ) which 1 must acknowledge the being of God and accept him as the Creator. Every person should be to the full responsible for his works and actions. The last component is to bring forth knowing Malayan citizens. We as a Malayan citizen should hold love for cognition and strive to further cognition and implement reading civilization in our day-to-day life. So, it clearly shows that if each and everyone in the instruction fraternity uphold ( NPE ) when transporting out their undertakings with full duties, our educational ends will go world.

National Curriculum

There are three clip types of alterations in course of study such as Old Primary School Curriculum ( KLSR ) before 1982, New Primary School Curriculum ( KBSR ) and Standard Primary School Curriculum ( KSSR ) .Firstly, Old Primary School Curriculum. ( KLSR ) was implemented since the state attained its independency. In 1960, the Subject Review Committee has been established is besides known as Rahman Talib Report. In add-on, this degree of instruction system is oriented to the eradiation of illiteracy. Traditional schoolroom is a topographic point where a group of pupils will follow the acquisition procedure. In this type of schoolroom, pupils normally sit in the order of chairs and tabular arraies that are arranged line by line. For case, pupils who are tall should sit at the back whereas pupils who are short or have hapless seeing should sit forepart. In conformity with the facets of Rahman Talib Report, all pupils must go through in Bahasa Melayu public scrutiny which the paper is written in Malay Language. It aims to further integrity among multiracial society.

Following, is New Primary School Curriculum ( KBSR ) which was implemented in 1982 as a test footing of new course of study. So, in 1983 authorities to the full implemented Integrated Primary school Curriculum which besides known as ( KBSR ) . The course of study design based on three countries which are communicating, adult male and environment, and development of single ( KBSR ) emphasizes pupils survey in group and interaction between instructor and pupils, pupils and pupils are really stressed in this ( KBSR ) . In footings of learning schemes, student-centered is actively attack in the procedure of instruction and acquisition. This is because it raises an interesting environment in schoolroom and stimulates the procedure of instruction and acquisition. The rating in ( KBSR ) emphasize in basic accomplishments ( 3R ) that pupils should be mastered which are unwritten, reading and composing. Students who could non get the hang any topics, the pupil will be sent to remedial categories. RemedialA categories are frequently used to emphasize the rudimentss in a topic such as math or linguistic communication.

Last, Standard Primary School Curriculum ( KSSR ) course of study design based on six spikes which are communicating, spiritualty, attitudes and values of physical and aesthetic development of humanistic disciplines, scientific discipline and engineering and visual aspect. From 2011, the primary school course of study start to use ( KSSR ) which involves alterations in design, organisation, content, teaching method, clip allotment, assessment methods, stuffs and direction of the school course of study. ( KSSR ) emphasized the usage of different learning attacks larning ( P & A ; P ) that give more accent and impact on pupils. For illustration, instructors teach the pupils by nearing to inquiry findings, solution and job, constructivism, contextual, learning based on future and larning based on undertaking. Therefore, the three elements of value was added and introduced in the ( KSSR ) the component of creativeness and invention, entrepreneurship, information and communicating engineering ( ICT ) .

In short, alterations in the epoch of globalisation require a alteration in the balance of the instruction course of study like ( KLSR ) before 1982, ( KBSR ) and ( KSSR ) .These alterations improve the quality of primary instruction to be more relevant to the challenges of the present and of the twenty-first century. It is really critical to carry on activities harmonizing to ( NPE ) particularly in schools and universities and ushers to a standard course of study. By implementing the course of study efficaciously in schools, it can develop the pupils cognitive, affectional and psychomotor ( physical ) with other potencies ( JERIS ) in pupils. Here, there will be ambitious unit of ammunition among pupils to vie each other. By implementing activities which are in incorporate mode will do the pupils to believe out of the box.

School Activity

Recently, I have interviewed schoolmaster and senior aid in two schools which are Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Uda ( SKTU ) at Alor Star, Kedah and Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil Hicom ( SJKT ) at Dengkil, Selangor. The intent of these interviews is based on the national course of study of the school which reflects the aim of ( NPE ) . Harmonizing to the interviews that conducted in both schools, I identify that there are two types of activities are organized in schools which are school based activities and schoolroom activities. Assorted types of activity that are organized in school aligned with ( NPE ) . There are five chief activities that carried out in school like Sports Day, Motivational Talk, Qiamullai, Excell Program and ‘gotong-royong ‘ .

First and first, Sports Day is carried out during the month of February yearly. All the instructors and pupil from Standard 1 until Standard 6 are involved in this activity. A few hebdomads before Sports Day, pupil start to give their names for participate events like high wide leap, 100m race, ‘shot put ‘ and others. After the school hours, pupils will get down to pattern the activities at school field. The importance to form this activity is to develop pupils who are healthy. Sports can construct up musculus and castanets which finally will do the pupils to go healthy. Sports twenty-four hours is the clip where pupil is taught and expose to assorted types of athletics and learning to be cooperate in squad games, be discipline as to follow the regulations for each game or athletics and so much more. Sports are a really healthy activity that can maintain away a batch of unneeded disease such as corpulent. Students can keep their personal wellbeing which is aligned with ( NPE ) . This activity can assist to develop psychomotor accomplishments in pupils.

Another activity that was conducted in school is Motivational Talk which was given by the Sir Ismail who is one of the counsellors in that school. This talk is to provide the stableness of pupil ‘s emotions and self direction for their excellence. All pupils are involves in this talk and given cognition to fix themselves for tests. It is carried out in three stages which are learning techniques, clip direction and emotion control. Students take the importance key characteristics and seek to better ego failing and doing utilize the strength to guarantee excellence in their pupils. This activity helps to bring forth pupils who are high moral criterions and responsible which is in lined with ( NPE ) . Here, pupils can stabilise their emotions in a right way.

Qiamulail is besides one of the activities that were conducted in schools. All the Muslims pupils were involved in this activity while non-Muslims pupils were involved in Moral category. Muslims pupils stayed in inn for one twenty-four hours to finish their supplications. Their supplications will get down at early in the forenoon which is at 4 in the forenoon and ends at 5 in the eventide. This activity brings a strong religious life and is a manner to acquire closer to God which is extremely demanded. The pupils besides have an chance to construct the spirit of appreciating faith and have faith in God. This activity mould pupils to believe in God as stated in ( NPE ) . In this activity, pupils can high spiritualty within themselves and avoid them to affect in immoral activities.

Activity like ‘Excell Programs ‘ which is mean by excess categories are organized in school. Engagement of all pupils is mandatory for this activity. It has two stages which are boring pupils understanding in each chapter and techniques to reply inquiries. Phase 1 is to better pupils ‘ apprehension in each chapter so that they can understand and execute good in tests while stage 2 is to give them the correct schemes to reply the inquiries harmonizing to exam criterion. Phase 1 is done with the aid of instructors at category after completing each chapter. Phase 2 is carried out after the concluding appraisal. The instructors will give proper techniques of replying to each topic. Here, the pupils will get the hang the replying techniques when they were given to reply past twelvemonth inquiries and exercisings. Those pupils who improved in a peculiar topic they will be given wages by the schoolmaster. This will make enthusiasm in learning. Here, pupils improve their cognitive accomplishment which helps to bring forth pupils who are knowing and competent as stated in ( NPE )

The last activity that was conducted is ‘gotong-royong ‘ . The spirit of gotong-royong is a nucleus of civilization that pupils should follow. Students were divided into groups to clean different types of country in schools like filed, garden, schoolrooms, hall and others This activity was held to nurture pupils to well-behave, co-operate with others, love and responsible to take attention of their school, and to give consciousness to pupils about healthy organic structure, head and environment. After the gotong-royong event, pupils will pick up trash on the floor anyplace in the school if they see it. It is of import that cleanliness and beautification will maintain the environment to be contributing and comfy so that the instruction and acquisition procedure would be more effectual. Besides, the activity really is in line with ( NPE ) which is to bring forth balanced person from the facet of emotional. They love and appreciate the school, the nature, have a sense of belonging and solidarity and in conclusion they will go mature in thought.

Class activity

Besides school based activities, there are besides schoolroom activities which are effectual to pupils. Classroom activities should be built chiefly on making chances for pupils to show and understand meaningful linguistic communication. However, the activities are based on form-focused direction and disciplinary feedback which is indispensable for the development of pupils in the schoolrooms. Lesson program is the usher for instructors to fix activities for pupils and set assortments in order to make merriment learning environment. The activities that conducted in the category are function drama, playing games, spelling modus operandi, Q & A ; A activity and Lady Bird.

The most interesting activity that pupil enjoyed is function drama. Role drama is an built-in portion of the course of study for speech production and hearing. The usage of function drama provides pupils to develop speech production and listening accomplishments when they speak as a character, program scenes, use duologue and measure their ain public presentation and that of others. For case, the instructor wants to learn about business. The instructor can inquire their pupils to move a instructor, physician, tradesman, attorney and others. Here, pupils will brainstorm their thoughts to move as one of the business. Students get to wider their cognition and experiences when they start to prosecute with other pupils while utilizing marks, props, bill of fare, and so on. The school instructor besides states that this function drama activity can construct pupil ‘s assurance degree when pupils are brave to show in forepart of their friends. High moral criterions can be created among pupils to model good behaviour and bring forth personal wellbeing as stated in ( NPE )

Another amusing activity that carried out by instructor in schoolroom is playing games. There many types of games that pupils participated which were saber saws mystifier, on-line synergistic games, word a twenty-four hours and others. These games are great exercising for encephalon. It helps the pupils to better their memory, spacial and pattern acknowledgment and spelling accomplishments. Game like word a twenty-four hours can make a reading environment in the schoolrooms. Students were told to convey newspaper cutting during English category. First, pupils were given instructions by instructor to look for word which they do non understand. After that, they have to look up for the significance in dictionary and build them into sentences. In this activity, pupils who collect a batch of words will be given award as a item of grasp. Besides that, this activity besides emphasizes pupils to read independently and wider their cognition in footings of vocabulary. Teachers and pupils are setting their attempt as ongoing attempt for excellence in order to bring forth knowing Malayan citizen as stated in ( NPE )

Following, is spelling everyday which is conducted by instructor in the schoolroom. The most helpful manner of giving spelling is to compose the word down for the pupils utilizing the ‘look, screen, write, look into ‘ modus operandi which is originally devised by Peters and Cripps ( 1980 ) . First the instructor writes the word for the pupils to look at the word and to memorise it. This can be done by following or copying it. The right version is so removed or covered and asked the pupils to compose the word from memory without any aid. The pupils ‘ spelling is so checked against the right version. If the spelling is right, pupils can integrate the word into their authorship. If the word is wrong when comparing the two versions, place where the job lies and reiterate the whole process. This scheme helps pupils to memorise the correct spelling by looking at the whole word. Besides that, it helps pupils to acquire the overall ocular form of the word which they can easy retrieve it. This activity helps to bring forth Malayan citizens who are knowing and competent as aligned with ( NPE ) .

Another activity that can transport out in category is Q & A ; A activity which is base for inquiry and reply. This activity is organized it is easy to be carried out in the category but the activity is able to make the two manner interaction between instructor and pupil expeditiously. The inquiries given by instructor require pupils to believe and able to measure what has been taught by instructor during the lesson. In add-on, the inquiries must be organized and good quality because it will assist pupils to sharpen their thought every bit good as to make more dynamic and effectual acquisition environment. For case, teacher gives inquiries sing on Mathematic topic. Teacher can change the inquiries into non subjective and subjective signifier which will measure pupils ‘ thought accomplishment. The purpose of the activity is to promote pupils to believe creatively, advanced, logical and critical thought in line with National course of study which is to mold pupils ‘ behaviour and thought from the facets of rational.

Last but non least, the activity that carried out in category is Lady Bird. This activity creates for pupils who are slow scholars. It is one the manner to catch slow scholars ‘ attending to analyze smart. Teacher lays a critical function here by giving eternal support to pupils as they can be a good scholar like others. First, it is conducted by supplying a text with figure of inquiries. The inquiry should change from 3 degrees of facets which are easy, mean and difficult. Students need to seek for cardinal words in the text and high spot or underscore the key features that enable them to reply the inquiries. Students who are fast scholar will be junior instructor for those who are slow scholars. Slow scholars will experience free to inquire inquiries or elucidations to their friends without vacillations. After this session carried out, there are slow scholars who are able to read after involve in this activity for three months and showed addition in each school scrutiny. This activity persist in ( NPE ) by a least figure of slow scholars which will lend in bring for thing literacy state in Malaysia.

Decision

In decision the National doctrine of Education ( NPE ) gives a really large impact on the development of instruction that involves the ministry of instruction, formation of assorted new constructs in instruction, course of study, co-curriculum, schools, instructors and pupils. Overall this causes a great betterment of the citizen of the state as reference in the ( NPE ) in the formation of balanced and harmonious persons physically, rational, emotional, spiritually and socially, citizen that lives in harmoniousness, believes in God and others.

As a hereafter teacher we should use ( NPE ) in learning and learning procedure so that it produce a better Malayan citizen.

Nowadays, it is common to have free elections in the country, to have right to vote and those are some of the characteristics that define democracy in some country. However, the question is how did the democratic regime developed what are the factors that helped in establishing the democracy? In this paper I will discuss the texts by Lipset Seymour, Moore Barrington, Przeworski Adam and Fernando Limongi and Skocpo Theda. All the mentioned authors answering the previous question. In their papers they discuss transition from the aristocratical type of government to more modernized and democratic government.

The main noticeable variables in texts that kind of pushed for the democracy are economy, education, class structure in the society and political legitimacy. Right from the title of Seymour Lipset text “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy” it is obvious that he means that economy and political legitimacy are necessary for development and maintenance of democratic regime in some country. Unlike Lipset, Przeworski Adam and Fernando Limongi in their article “Modernization: Theories and Facts” believe that the strong economy does not need to be necessary for the countries to develop the democracy but they believe that democracy have more chance to survive in countries with stronger economy.

While Lipset, Przeworski and Limongi focus mostly on the influence of the economy on the development of democracy, Moore Barrington in his book “Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World” compares different countries and the regimes that influenced transition to more modernized countries. He describes in his book how independent bourgeois is necessary for transition from the agrarian society to more modern society (democracy).

Alike Przeworski and Limongi disagree in some points with Lipotski, Skocpo Theda in her article “A Critical Review of Barriangton Moore’s Social Origins” criticizes Moore. Skocpo admits that conflict between the classes is important for the development of democracy in the country but she also believes that bourgeois is not as necessary for the democracy as Moore explains. While Moore is focused more on political revolution in the countries, Skocpo is focused primarily on social revolution. I will go on and explain these texts more in depth and I will start first with Lipsent’s article.

“Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy” is written in very philosophical way, he used more qualitative method over quantitative, and the texts is not focused on small details much, so considering that it seems that Lipset used a macro-level of analysis. Lipset also used a deductive analysis because he has a hypothesis that he needs to test and he claims already in the first paragraph of his article “It his paper the problem is attacked from a sociological and behavioral standpoint, by presenting a number of hypotheses concerning some social requisites for democracy, and by discussing some of the data available to test these hypotheses” (Lipset, 69).

Even though in his article Lipset believes that the main characteristic to have a stable democracy is strong economy, he also agrees that the class structure and historical events are also factors that can influence the development of democracy in a country. Through his essay Lipset indicates that Max Weber says how historical events can influence the country’s political regime (72). Lipset also gave Germany as an example of a state who had good economy, growing industrialization, education but still could not develop stable democracy “…all favored the establishment of a democratic system, but in which a series of adverse historical events prevented democracy from securing legitimacy in the eyes of many important segments of society, and thus weakened German democracy’s ability to withstand crisis” (Lipset 72).

What Lipset also emphasizes is education. From his researchers he found out that the more democratic countries have the higher education. Another reason why the education is important the country’s democracy is because “The higher one’s education, the more likely one is to believe in democratic values and support democratic practices’7” (Lipset 79). However, there is also a connection between education and economy because the countries with the higher education are also the wealthy countries.

In his essay he also compares some variables like urbanization, literacy, media participation, of some countries and political participation in the countries like Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Jordan. The Turkey scored the highest (Lipset 81). Even though Egypt is more urbanized than Turkey, Lipset supports Lerner opinion on that Turkey is more modernized state than Egypt because the literacy, participation and urbanization are increasing, while Egypt is “literacy homeless” (Lipset 81).

Furthermore, like Moore, Lipset says that “burgher class whose existence was both a catalyst and a necessary condition for democracy,” from this we can see that the social classes are one of the factors that is important for development of democracy. Lipset also mentions that the better economy influences the class structure. However, the upper class did not like the idea of democracy because they wanted to be different from the lower class. Nonetheless the economical development for the lower class means “greater economic security, and higher education, permit those in this status to develop longer time perspectives and more complex and gradualist views of politics” (Lipset 83).

With the economical development the middle class would be emerge. Lipset indicates that legitimacy and effectiveness are also necessary to sustain the democracy. Legitimacy is defined as “…the capacity of a political system to engender and maintain the belief that existing political institutions are the most appropriate or proper ones for the society” (Lipset 86). With effectiveness Lipset means that the government should take the more active role in political system (Lipset 86). As mentioned before economic development causes extension of the middle class, and with more people on the higher position government will become more efficient and will take the legitimacy more seriously.

Through the whole essay Lipset is trying to explain how the development of the economy is essential for the establishment and substation of democracy. He uses many variables to prove his point. He compares different (rich, poor) countries to each other. Lipset has some good points and everything is supported by qualitative or quantitative evidence. He shows through his essay that strong economy is fundamental element in having a stable democracy but he concludes that democracy can survive only if people work together towards it, one man alone cannot do anything (Lipset 103).

Alike Lipset, Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi in their article are also trying to explain how development of economy affects transformation from the dictatorship to democratic regime. However, through their article they try to discuss the points that Lipset says about relationship between development of economy and democracy, nevertheless as a mentioned before Limongi and Preworski do not agree with all the points that Lisent made in his essay. In their article they provide a lot of quantitative data to support their theory.

Przeworski and Limongi started their essay by defining two types of democratization, endogenous and exogenous. The endogenous in this content means “…either democracies may be more likely to emerge as countries develop economically…” and exogenous “…or they may be established independently of economic development but may be more likely to survive in developed countries” (Preworski, Limongi pg2). Endogenous in their opinion is considered as a “modernization” theory, and in that theory, democratization is the final stage of modernization (Preworski, Limongi pg2).

The endogenous theory describes us that the democracy can happened under the authoritarian regime if the country develops. On the other hand, exogenous is not considered a modernization theory. Furthermore, exogenous is focused more on economy, the wealthier countries are more likely to stay democratic than poor countries, and they agree with Lipset on this one. Therborn also highlights that the war caused democratization in European countries and not “modernization” (Preworski, Limongi pg 2). However, there also some dictatorship regime that collapsed because of economic crisis or because of the pressure from other democratic countries (Preworski, Limongi pg2).

To get better sense if the “levels of economic development and the incidence of democratic regimes is due to democracies being more likely to emerge or only more likely to survive in the more developed countries.” they tested 224 regimes that existed during the 1950 to 1990, and all the regimes that existed during that time were either under the regime of dictatorship (123 countries) or democracy (123).

They found out that when the per capita income reaches more than $6,000 in dictatorship countries, the country become more stable (Prewoski, Limongi pg 3). So that means that dictatorship survives in the countries that are wealthy, however out 123 dictatorship countries only 19 survived during these years (1950-1990). Even though the small number of countries remained under the dictatorship regime, it cannot be said for sure that dictatorship regime collapses when the country’s economy develop, this is the proof that indeed economic growth does not need to lead to democracy right away. However, some countries after the dictatorship still could not get the $6,000 per capita income. According to that, countries managed to get rid of dictatorship and lean towards the democracy, even though, they were economically weak.

That point supports exogenous theory, which shows us that democracy in the countries occur independently and even with the fragile economy countries can develop democracy. To conclude this point, unlike Lipsot, Prewoski and Limongi prove that development of economy is not necessary for democracy to emerge in some country. However, Prewoski and Limongi do believe that economic development keeps the democracy more stable, and it is likely that democracy in poor countries will not last.

Furthermore, Preworski and Limongi, disagree with Lipset concept that when countries grow quickly, democracy will become more fragile. Preworski and Limongi with their data prove that Lipset is wrong ” Moreover, democracies that grow slowly, at the rate of less than 5 percent per annum, die at the rate of 0.0173, while those that grow at a rate faster than 5 percent die at the rate of 0.0132″(Preworski, Limongi pg 5).

That means that democracies that grow faster than five percent per annum will die in a lower rate than the democracies that grow slower.
Finally, Preworski and Limongi use deductive type of analysis, because they have a theory which they tested and then they concluded it. It also looks like they were more focused more on a micro level of analysis because they used data mostly from the per capita income.

It seems that in both texts’ democracy is treated as depended variable and economy as an independent variable, because they are trying to explain how democracy and the economic development are related. Lipset’s essay and the article from Preworski and Limongi, both have some fair points. After first reading essay from Lipset it looked like he has proof enough and that economy is the key for the countries to establish democratic regime.

On the contrary to Lipset, Preworski and Limongi give more quantitative data, and looking from it is noticeable that Lipset was wrong about that point. Nevertheless, Perworski and Limongi agree with Lioset about how economic development is crucial for democracy to sustain a country. Lipset uses education as an important aspect to stability of democracy and he supports with the evidence while Preworski and Limongi do agree that education is vital aspect for democracy to develop and sustain stable but they mention education just briefly and do not use much data to support it. In both texts we can see that they use different countries in their data, while Lipset is more focused on Latin America and Europe, Prewowski and Limongi take data from 135 countries. Both texts give attention to economy and how economy influences democracy.

Role of education in 21st century Long, long ago, Newton had said that he was ‘like a child, who is picking pebbles at sea-shore while the great ocean of knowledge lies before me’. Since then, knowledge has grown enormously at a much faster speed than human ability to cope with it. Technological advancements of twentieth century, especially during post 1970? s due to revolution in the field of information technology, have changed the whole scenario. Entering into world of knowledge is like going into a dense forest.

Only way out is to develop clarity of thought/mind, as to what one wants to know and make sincere efforts to pursue relevant knowledge in that specific area. Also it is equally important to upgrade knowledge continuously. As Alvin Toffler, renowned writer has said, “The illiterate of twenty-first century will not be those who can not read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. ” Purpose of education Unfortunately, meaning and purpose of literacy and education is misunderstood.

Literacy does not merely mean the knowledge of three ‘R’s, nor does it mean only academic or theoretical studies/knowledge leading to award of degrees. Increasing knowledge-base through available information is also not the purpose of learning. Bookish-knowledge and award of degrees through formal education without effective training-systems neither serves any purpose nor led the people to get employed gainfully. As Khalil Gibran has said – knowledge, the object of knowledge and application of the knowledge – all the three are equally important for motivating to take a wise action.

A little knowledge that acts is worth more than much knowledge that is inactive. One, whose knowledge is confined to books, cannot use his wealth of knowledge, whenever required. The scope of education – The scope of education is much broader. It is a continuous process. It means complete up-bringing of the individual starting from the childhood till end. In its wider sense, literacy and education embraces within itself reading, observation, thought and its application in real life situations.

Within its jurisdiction, also comes formation of habits, manners, character, attitude and aptitude along with imparting knowledge. Learning at each and every stage of life increases knowledge-base, understanding and attitudes of a person. A well-planned and sound system of education inspires human beings to control their senses, mind and intellect, so that they could be adjusted better in real life’s environment. It guides people to achieve their goals within time and cost parameters and to channelize their efforts towards desired direction.

In short, a sound education system imparts knowledge, shapes attitudes, cultivates skills and builds work habits of the people. Distinction between action, forbidden action, and in-action – Knowledge has been considered essential for the purpose of giving activities, their due meaning and value. According to Hindu philosophy even a wise man may get puzzled without knowledge about do’s and don’ts. It is only after the acquisition of knowledge, that a person understands the real nature of work and could distinguish correctly between action, forbidden action and in-action.

India and its Education system High regard for knowledge- India has always given importance to and showed a high regards for knowledge, wisdom, virtues, characters and will power. According to Indian philosophy, ‘Wealth of knowledge is supreme among all forms of wealth’. (Vidya dhanam sarvadhana pradhanam). Therefore, knowledge is the greatest thing to be sought after. A human being is human because he has the organic capacity to think and seek knowledge.

More importance to knowledge than wealth – Unlike India, in Western countries, more importance is being given to creation of wealth. Wealth is the ultimate aim of the people, yardstick of success and a status symbol. Traditional India was not so materialistic. Its systems had separated pursuit and achievement in knowledge from temptations of worldly comforts, wealth or power-politics. According to Indian philosophy, when a person runs blindly after money and forgets about the real purpose of knowledge, both wealth and knowledge vanishes from their lives.

The only judicious way to generate wealth and gain power goes via the path of true knowledge. Knowledge as the base of ranking – Earlier the greatness of a person, institution or a nation was judged on the basis of the degree of righteousness and justice. Greatness of a nation was judged with which its administration governed lives of the common men or their character. It was not on the basis of the size of a state, its military power or its treasury/bank-balance. Similarly, in the society, a person or a caste was ranked on the basis of knowledge, iscipline and moral standards, and not on the basis of material success, muscle or money power or of having controlling power over the destiny of common man. Respect for knowledgeable persons – In ancient India, apart from Brahmins, others were also paid respect by the society for their learning, character, spirituality and ability to guide general masses. The system was quite liberal in this matter. It gracefully accepted the right and opportunity to get to the top from the humblest origin and earn the respect of the whole society.

For example, Vashishtha, the principal of the conservative school of Brahmanism, was the son of Uravshi, a prostitute. Vishwamitra, the maker of the very Gayatri Mantra, the quintessence of the Vedic Brahmanism, was a Kshatriya. Aitreya, after whom the sacramental part of Rig-Veda is named as Aitreya Brahamana, was the son from a non-Aryan wife of a Brahman sage. Vyasa of Mahabharata fame was the son of a fish-woman (belonging to Mahr community – Dalit according to present standards and to which Dr Ambedkar, the messiah of Dalits belonged).

Balmiki, an untouchable according to present standards, the original author of Ramayana, is highly respected all over India. None of them were not ashamed of their origin. They still hold a very high position in general public minds. Close connection between Knowledge and hard work -For acquiring knowledge, training mind in a scientific manner and concentrating energies of mind, one has to struggle, work hard, make sincere efforts and face many challenges in life. Now-a-days, courage to struggle or work hard is missing except in a few students, who still keep the fire of seeking knowledge burning all the time.

Without hard-work, search for knowledge remains incomplete and superficial. In ancient India sages (Rishi-Munies) had worked day and night to acquire true knowledge. The love for knowledge inspired many students to walk from different parts of the country to centers of learning at that time like Taxila or Nalanda. A powerful Emperor, like Ashoka the great, thought it his duty, to bow before the monks “as a mark of my deep respect for their learning, wisdom and sacrifice. What matters in life, are not a person’s status or position, but his virtues and wisdom.

Only when you have raised yourself up from ignorance, can you recognize the greatness of a few in a sea of humanity. ” For creating modern civilization, sincere knowledge seekers in Western world also did not care for inconveniences or challenges. They had sacrificed their time (for about two centuries), energies and comforts in search of knowledge. Then only they could develop great modern scientific knowledge, technique and wealth. Education in modern India Sixty four years after independence and self-rule, lliteracy-rate has gone up to 74% from 65%.

For males it has risen to 82% from 75%, for females to 65% from 54%. In absolute number, the figure is alarming. No nation can afford to have a large number of its population to remain illiterate, ignorant and unskilled. Constraints That all is not well in education system in India – has been noted by distinguished academicians, policy-makers, political leaders, other eminent persons, commissions and committees. Now and then, they have pointed out its failures in one area or another.

It has always been felt that Modern education has become increasingly unrelated to national needs and aspirations, insufficient, wasteful and dysfunctional. In addition to what constraints that have already been existing in the education system, many more external and internal problems, paradoxes and constraints have cropped up. Some defects in modern education based on colonised British Grammer School type education, were pointed out by Gandhiji like – * It is based upon foreign culture to the almost entire exclusion of the indigenous culture. It ignores the culture of heart and hand and confines itself simply to head * Real education is impossible through foreign medium. External Constraints – Externally, socio-economic and political pressures have violated its identity and autonomy. Some changes have taken place in the recent past in the character, role and inter-relationship of these main constituent of the national elites – the political executive, the legislators, the businessmen, the media persons, the organized workers, the surplus farmers and the bureaucrats.

It brought into the forefront some undesirable social changes and political turmoil. It has affected adversely the whole atmosphere in the field of education as well. Population explosion has put a heavy pressure on present education system and its available infrastructure. Narrow loyalties, sectional interests and sub-cultures like – favoritism, nepotism and corruption have fast become an accepted way of life. Result is that communal, regional and caste conflicts and unhealthy ompetition between different powerful lobbies are increasing every day to have their exclusive hold on scarce resources available in the field of education or for power and pelf. Few persons and groups, who have the power in their hands, control almost every walk of national life and are working to deny justice to common men. The reflection of all these social evils is found in the educational system as well. Internal Constraints – Internally the system has been fractured along the lines of discipline deteriorating standard of education in general and student sub-culture.

Slowly but steadily, the education system lost its capacity to equip the younger generation with relevant knowledge and skills for enabling them to get gainfully employed and to perform their jobs with a sense of responsibility. It has failed to produce much-needed dynamism in youth as well. Now people have started questioning the legitimacy of a modern education system itself. Disintegrate society – Instead of being an instrument of social integration, education system divides people into two groups – ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’. There is government or government aided schools that give education to poor masses.

It is economical, but do not maintain good standard. On the other hand there are private schools, which caters mainly the needs of ‘Haves’, because it is very costly. Deteriorating standards – After independence, India is facing a rapid deterioration in standards of education. In the past, though education was thinly spread, it had maintained some standard. Now in an attempt to do quantitative expansion of education, quality of education suffered a lot. The examination and evaluation system tests only a narrow range of skills, especially those of memory.

Standard of general education has deteriorated considerably and suffers from grave errors. In addition to it, there is lot of interference and control of the government at every stage of the educational process. Unfit for original work – Education system in advanced countries makes student a lively, inquisitive and original thinking person. There, it has been able to develop certain special qualities like regards for laws of the nation, awareness, contempt for hypocrisy, sympathy for underdog and courage to resist cruelty or misuse of power and authority.

An educated youth in India generally fails to display genuine social conscience. Store-house of information – Importance of information in knowledge, which provides the basis of all the thinking, cannot be denied. However, present education system at all stages of education, from preliminary through secondary right up-to the college stage makes mind a store-house of information/knowledge and discourages original thinking. It lays emphasis on giving students ready-made knowledge, systematically and neatly organized in the form of lessons, units and text book.

English medium – English medium puts extra strain upon the nerves of students and makes them crammers, imitators and unfit for original work and thought. Masses remains deprived. System is producing mostly the youth, who are unable to express clearly in any language, including their own and lack woefully the competence and confidence to assume responsibilities. Higher secondary, the weakest link in Indian education system – Higher secondaryeducation is considered to be insufficient and a weakest link in Indian education system.

It needs sincere efforts to improve the Academic standards, curricula and methods of teaching at higher secondary level. In western countries the standard of higher secondary education is sufficiently high to ensure recruits of higher intellectual attainment to join various jobs at this stage. Degree-oriented: The whole system of education and employment is degree oriented. Degree is the master-key to a nice and respectable career giving status, authority and final reprieve from manual work. Such a narrow mind-set has put tremendous pressure on higher education system.

A large number of new substandard and superfluous institutions are being created every day to meet the demand. Government also encourages mass entry into universities and colleges. Rush in institutions are of such students as well, who want degree as a passport and are not interested in studies. Such students seize every opportunity to spoil the academic atmosphere and breed indiscipline. Indiscipline- There is a growing unrest in the student community. Youth of the day want to be absolutely free from all compulsions.

For them, discipline and observance of rules are supposed to be unnecessary and irrational. They have no respect for rules/discipline/morality or for elders, teachers or authority. Their interests lie in all that is sensuous, in material gains and in enjoying pleasures in life. Indiscipline in student’s world leads to chaos and violence. It makes people slaves of their weaknesses. Employability – One of the major aims of education is to make youth employable. At present it is difficult to find out and recruit well qualified persons for various jobs in government, public or private sectors.

At pre-employment stage, education needs to be comprehensive in scope and sound in nature for making youth acceptable in job-market. It needs to be supplemented by rigorous foundation training telling the fundamentals of their specific jobs and inculcating in them relevant knowledge and skills, otherwise effectiveness, efficiency and quality of work gets a setback. At present, all the basics about their jobs are told to employees after their join work-force, which requires a much more massive effort in order to make employees do their jobs well.

Unrealistic Manpower Assessment – Assessment of manpower requirement for economic growth is not done rationally according to national needs. After Independence, the need for technical people was felt and in recent past for management experts. The Government created large number of professional institutions in these areas without assessing the needs of the nation. It resulted in educated unemployment. A large number of scientists, doctors, engineer’s technicians and management graduates have to go abroad in search of suitable jobs.

Therefore, for streamlining the performance of people at work after employment, most essential and fundamental requirement is that the character and scope of pre-employment educational system should be redesigned in such a way, that it could continuously provide men and women of vitality, vigor, initiative and imagination with intellectual accomplishments, qualifications and soundness of character needed in different disciplines and at different levels at job market. Where the fault lies? – For all these lacunas, students blame teachers, teachers blame students. Both together try to blame educationists.

They, in turn, attack social system. The present system of education can not be changed or improved overnight. It needs concentrated efforts of all – students, teachers and the society. Then only a larger base of skilled and trained manpower could be created. Conclusion Rational thinking needs to be done about the real problems and the role of education in modern life after understanding its basics, fundamentals and aims correctly. The requirement of a university degree as a Passport for starting nice and respectable career (white collard jobs) has made a mockery of higher education.

Such an attitude has by-passed the need to “educate all”, resulted in negligence of primary and higher secondary education and in over-crowding the institutions of learning. The stress on quantitative increase has subverted all the attempts to improve the quality of teaching and learning. It has led to continuous fall in the academic standards and students’ discipline, regional imbalances in the growth of educational institutions and politics in the temples of learning. In the present times of neck to neck competition, one should continuously upgrade knowledge. It is the best way to create a larger base of skilled and trained manpower.

Education should instill in students problem-solving attitude and develop the courage to meet the challenges of real life bravely. Instead of offering excuses or blaming others for one’s failures and dissatisfaction, it should inculcate in students the spirit to face the difficult situations in life and make efforts to change their destiny themselves. Education must teach people always try to have control over ones life’s situations and to stand up on his own feet rather than depending on others for moving forward. Success in life depends on developing capacity and courage to take right decisions at right time.

Only sound system of education and training can provide a lasting solution for various problems, people are facing today. It can lead the youth towards rational, positive and creative thinking. It would make youth capable to make right decision at right time, plan rationally about their career that would suit to their attitude and aptitude and to shoulder their responsibilities properly. It would enable them to act judiciously and promptly, give them courage to avoid out-dated traditions and dogmatic ways of doing things, courage to face realities and challenges.

Human Development Index ( HDI ) ranking of eight major economic systems of South Asia in the 2009 Human Development Report, released earlier this hebdomad, show a blue record with all states relegated to the 3rd class of medium development provinces with the planetary rankings falling in the 2nd half of the listings of 182 states. Exceeding the superior list of the South Asiatic states in 2007, the day of the month for which comprehensive information was available, was Maldives ( 95 ), followed by Sri Lanka ( 102 ), Bhutan ( 132 ), India ( 134 ), Pakistan ( 141 ), Nepal ( 144 ), Bangladesh ( 146 ) and Afghanistan ( 182 ).

The worst facet of India’s low HDI ranking was its blue record in even a nucleus country-like life anticipation. Life anticipation at birth in India was merely 63.4 old ages, which pushed it down in the last but one class, merely above Afghanistan where the life anticipation was a blue 43.6 old ages. South Asiatic states hitting above India in life anticipation included Bhutan and Bangladesh ( 65.7 old ages each ), Pakistan ( 66.2 old ages ), Nepal ( 66.3 old ages ), Maldives ( 71.1 old ages ), and even the civil war hit Sri Lanka ( 74 old ages ).

India ‘s record on life anticipation is made worse by the low rates of endurance of immature individuals. The estimations show that the chance of deceasing before the age of 40 is among the highest in India, with 15.5 % of the cohort fring their lives. This is about three times the degree of mortality in Sri Lanka were merely 5.5 % of the population fail to traverse the 40-age grade. Afghanistan fared the worst where the opportunities of endurance over 40 was worst-with about 40 % of the individuals decreasing before achieving this age.

What makes affairs even worse is that the chances of bettering opportunities of endurance of the younger age groups and bettering overall life anticipation may go on to be hampered by its dreamy attack to bettering kid public assistance, particularly the nutritionary degrees. A comparing of the statistics on scraggy kids in South Asia shows that India’s record was among the worst, with 46 % of the kids scraggy, a record which was merely following to that of Bangladesh where the portion of…

The HDI combines three dimensions:

Life anticipation at birth, as an index of population wellness and length of service

Knowledge and instruction, as measured by the grownup literacy rate ( with two-thirds burdening ) and the combined primary, secondary, and third gross registration ratio ( with one-third weighting ).

Standard of life, as indicated by the natural logarithm of gross domestic merchandise per capita at buying power para.

Methodology

The Physical Quality of Life Index ( PQLI ) is an effort to mensurate the quality of life or wellbeing of a state. The value is the norm of three statistics: basic literacy rate, infant mortality, and life anticipation at age one, all every bit weighted on a 0 to 100 graduated table.

It was developed for the Overseas Development Council in the mid-1970s by Morris David Morris, as one of a figure of steps created due to dissatisfaction with the usage of GNP as an index of development. PQLI might be regarded as an betterment but portions the general jobs of mensurating quality of life in a quantitative manner. It has besides been criticized because there is considerable convergence between infant mortality and life anticipation.

The UN Human Development Index is a more widely used agencies of mensurating wellbeing.

Stairs to Calculate Physical Quality of Life:

1. Find per centum of the population that is literate ( literacy rate ) .
2. Find the infant mortality rate. ( out of 1000 births ) INDEXED Infant Mortality Rate = ( 166 – infant mortality ) A- 0.625
3. Find the Life Expectancy. INDEXED Life Expectancy = ( Life expectancy – 42 ) A- 2.7
4.  Physical Quality of Life =( Literacy Rate + INDEXED Infant Mortality Rate + INDEXED Life Expectancy )

The term quality of life is used to measure the general wellbeing of persons and societies. The term is used in a broad scope of contexts, including the Fields of international development, health care, and political relations. Quality of life should non be confused with the construct of criterion of life, which is based chiefly on income. Alternatively, standard indexes of the quality of life include non merely wealth and employment, but besides the built environment, physical and mental wellness, instruction, diversion and leisure clip, and societal belonging.

Harmonizing to ecological economic expert Robert Costanza

While Quality of Life ( QOL ) has long been an explicit or inexplicit policy end, equal definition and measuring have been elusive. Diverse “ non subjective ” and “ subjective ” indexs across a scope of subjects and graduated tables, and recent work on subjective wellbeing ( SWB ) studies and the psychological science of felicity have spurred renewed involvement.

Besides often related are constructs such as freedom, human rights, and felicity. However, since felicity is subjective and difficult to mensurate, other steps are by and large given precedence. It has besides been shown that felicity, every bit much as it can be measured, does non need fully increase correspondingly with the comfort that consequences from increasing income. As a consequence, criterion of life should non be taken to be a step of felicity.

The Child Development Index ( CDI ) is an index uniting public presentation steps specific to kids – instruction, wellness and nutrition – to bring forth a mark on a graduated table of 0 to 100. A nothing mark would be the best. The higher the mark, the worse kids are doing.

The Child Development Index was developed by Save the Children UK in 2008 through the parts of Terry McKinley, Director of the Centre for Development Policy and Research at the School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ) , University of London, with support from Katerina Kyrili.

The indexs which make up the index were chosen because they are easy available, normally understood, and clearly declarative of kid well-being. The three indexs are:

Health: the under-five mortality rate ( the chance of deceasing between birth and five old ages of age, expressed as a per centum on a graduated table of 0 to 340 deceases per 1,000 unrecorded births ) . This means that a zero mark in this constituent equals an underfive mortality rate of 0 deceases per 1,000 unrecorded births, and a mark of 100 peers our upper edge of 340 deceases per 1,000 unrecorded births. The upper edge is higher than any state has of all time reached ; Niger came the closest in the nineties with 320 under-five deceases per 1,000 unrecorded births.

Nutrition: the per centum of under fives who are reasonably or badly scraggy. The common definition of reasonably or badly scraggy, which we use here, is being below two standard divergences of the average weight for age of the mention population.

Education: the per centum of primary school-age kids who are non enrolled in school. For our step of instruction want, we use the antonym of the Net Primary Enrolment rate -ie, 100 – the NER. This gives us the per centum of primary school-age kids who are non enrolled.

What does the Child Development Index state us about how kids are doing around the universe? Are some states doing good advancement in bettering child wellbeing? Is it acquiring worse in other states? The Child Development Index replies these inquiries. The index measures child wellbeing over three periods from 1990. Japan is in first topographic point, hiting merely 0.4. Niger in Africa is in 137th topographic point, with the highest mark, 58, in 2000-2006.

Human Development Index

The HDI combines normalized steps of life anticipation, literacy, educational attainment, and GDP per capita for states worldwide. It is claimed as a standard agency of mensurating human development-a construct that, harmonizing to the United Nations Development Program ( UNDP ) , refers to the procedure of widening the options of individuals, giving them greater chances for instruction, wellness attention, income, employment, etc. The basic usage of HDI is to mensurate a state’s development.

The HDI combines three basic dimensions: Life anticipation at birth, as an index of population wellness, and length of service. Knowledge and instruction, as measured by the grownup literacy rate ( with two-thirds burdening ) and the combined primary, secondary, and third gross registration ratio ( with one-third weighting ). Standard of living, as measured by the natural logarithm of gross domestic merchandise per capita. The Human Development Index ( HDI ) so represents the norm of the undermentioned three general indices:

Life Expectancy Index ( LEI ) = ( ( LE – 25 ) / ( 85-25 ) )

Education Index ( EI ) = ( 0.667 x ALI ) + ( .334 x GEI ) ALI is Adult Literacy Rate, GEI is Gross Enrolment Index.

GDP = [ log ( GDP personal computer ) -log ( 100 ) ] / [ log ( 40000 ) -log ( 100 ) ]

HDI measures measure and quality and includes life anticipation, literacy, and existent GDP/capita. Objectivity is a major job with any index. HDI is no exclusion. Assignment of weights is an illustration of flightiness without justification and the HDI index is sensitive to the weights assigned. A more serious unfavorable judgment of the HDI is the weighting of each rank order of the state by 1/3 ( LEI, EI, GDP ) and summing the leaden ranking of the three indexs.

Career Objective

To run into the organisational aim, attain highs in the occupation profile provided through my accomplishments and competency in Human Resources Management and General Administration.

Core Competences

Recruitment, Head Hunting, Change Management, Performance Appraisal, Attrition Analysis, Leave Policy Formulation.

As an enlisting performed full lifecycle recruiting. A broad grade of creativeness, cost-efficient sourcing schemes, and concern apprehension of organisation To incorporate the enlisting procedure into the overall strategic planning of the sphere staffing demands. Guide enlisting squad in managing the enlisting & A; choice procedure in an efficient and effective manner. Assist internal clients in composing Job Descriptions and Person specifications to Fix the occupation specifications for enlisting and Job Analysis. Designation of high possible endowment, Succession direction, and Manpower.

Key Duties

Overall Achievement of Revenue Targets. Team Management – Center Head, Faculty, Counselor, Marketing and Administration Plan and Implement Academic Schedules and Batch Operations. Day to twenty-four hours operations and center direction Plan and implement selling run. Quality confidence in daily operations and Infrastructure demand. Payment and Revenue Collection. Plan and implement Student & A ; Staff public assistance activities. Plan and implement pupil arrangement procedure. Behavior and present PDP for pupils and staff. Manpower planning and enlisting of staff. Performance assessment for Staff, Attrition Analysis. Motivating Gross sales squad to run into hebdomadal and monthly gross revenues mark.

‘Since the debut of the National Curriculum in 1992, a figure of alterations have been made to its construction and execution. Identify and explicate these alterations and measure the part of the National Curriculum in the attempt to raise criterions in Education ‘ by Keith Lyons.

This essay will depict, place and explicate the alterations that have occurred to the ‘National Curriculum ‘ ( NC ) since its construct in 1992. It will besides measure these alterations and measure the benefits and troubles that it has experienced since 1992.

The ‘Education Reform Act ‘ ( ERA ) came into consequence in 1988, this enabled Kenneth Baker the Conservative Minister of Education to implement the roll-out of the National Curriculum in 1992 within primary / secondary instruction. However, prior to 1992 there had been no National Curriculum and antecedently instructors had worked out their ain strategies of work that they deemed appropriate for their students.

As a consequence of this the criterion of instruction across the state varied well and the methods employed to learn were wide-ranging. With the execution of the National Curriculum in 1992, duty was shifted off from instructors to centralized authorities over what was to be taught. The National Curriculum established a ‘set-framework ‘ of larning to enable kids to travel freely between schools as they would be larning from the same model.

The National Curriculum ensured that schools taught a certain scope of topics, this consisted of 10 topics. The topics were divided into two sub-categories ( nucleus and foundation ) . The three chief nucleus topics were English, Maths and Science, and together with seven other foundation topics ( Art, Home Economics. Music, History, a Modern Foreign Language ( merely compulsory in secondary schools ) , Geography and Physical Education created the foundation of the National Curriculum. Compulsory National trials ( SATS ) were introduced at 7, 11 and 14 on nucleus topics. The consequences are published yearly in conference tabular arraies ( along with GCSE/A degrees and hooky statistics ) .

Changes occurred to the National Curriculum from its origin. Rather than being embraced the National Curriculum was met with ill will from some instructors and most of the larger instructors brotherhoods. One of the chief unfavorable judgments of the National Curriculum by instructors and learning brotherhoods was that at first glimpse that it contained far excessively many topics and was considered to be excessively stiff, compared to what was antecedently taught. This meant that it was hard to learn the topic good as the pupils had to larn so many topics, and they presumed that it would be really hard for pupils.

The National Curriculum was besides criticized for being highly ‘Eurocentric ‘ , as it was chiefly focused around European civilization, giving those from cultural backgrounds really small chance to larn about their roots. Certain subdivisions of the populace besides argued that the authorities deliberately fashioned the National Curriculum to take topics which they as a political party are against for political grounds, such as sociology, political relations, and environmental scientific disciplines ( they were ne’er contained in the National Curriculum ) .

However, a benefit to the National Curriculum was that instructors now had to educate pupils in a scope of topics. This gave kids / pupils a better start for the accomplishments they would necessitate for subsequently in life. It was besides disputed that the national Curriculum helped to cut down the division of misss and boys topics, as both sexes were taught the same topics. This helped to cut down the stereotyping of gender.

In 1993, instructors decided to boycott the national course of study proving agreements ( SATS ) after kicking about the work load. The Secretary of State for Education, in a move in the right way asked Sir Ron Dearing, who was the current Chairman of the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority ( SCAA ) , to reexamine the national course of study. Dearing made an Interim Report in 1993 and a Final Report in 1994 ( The Dearing Report ) after a period of audience with instructors and the instructors brotherhoods. In his study his recommended on slimming down the course of study, and bettering its disposal. He besides recommended that the slimmed down national course of study should non be altered for five old ages and that national trials should be simplified without giving cogency or dependability. The revised course of study was implemented from August 1995.

The 1992, Ofsted ( The Office for Standards in Education ) formed as portion of the major inspection and repair and centralization of the school system begun by the Education Reform Act 1988, which introduced the National Curriculum, extended testing in schools and the publication of conference tabular arraies. Ofsted reviews were carried out on school every 6 old ages. This alteration was introduced as it was believed criterions needed to be raised in schools.

Many people thought Ofsted reviews were a good thought, if schools were neglecting, it was noticed and steps were put in topographic point in order to better these schools. However, Ofsted were besides frequently seen to be excessively rigorous on schools, doing it hard for schools to go through review extremely.

Besides, it was felt that many instructors and schools would better their instruction criterions while they were being inspected. Some schools would besides direct some of their worst behaved pupils on school trips for the reviews. This defeated the object of Ofsted reviews as it was n’t the normal instruction criterions that were being tested. Recent reviews by Ofsted have revealed that although a good proportion of schools had improved since they were last checkered many were calming weakness.

In the twelvemonth 2006-07, 14 % of those checked were outstanding and 6 % were “ unequal ” .

In 1997, the incoming ‘The New Labour Government ‘ came into power in the UK. They Introduced the National Literacy Strategy to all Primary Schools in England from September 1998 after puting marks for students at Key Stage 2 in English (80 %), Mathematics (75%), but non in Science.

Previously a pilot undertaking had been tested during 1996, which involved schools in 14 Local Education Authorities. The scheme was planned for instructors to learn a day-to-day Literacy Hour, which followed a form of 30 proceedingss whole category instruction, so group work and reasoning with a plenary session. A figure of paperss have been published by the Department for Education and Employment ( DfEE ) to assist instructors raise criterions in literacy at the clip.

The National Literacy Strategy model endeavoured to better criterions for all primary aged students. The scheme ‘s intent was to do certain that all students were having on a day-to-day footing dedicated one hr of literacy. The terminal consequence would give pupils the chance to develop accomplishments in reading, grammar, spelling, and unwritten work and assist raise criterions in instruction and acquisition.

In the undermentioned twelvemonth of September 1999 The National Numeracy Strategy model was introduced and like the literacy scheme, aimed at raising criterions for all primary students. Similar to the National Literacy Strategy it prescribed a one hr day-to-day mathematics lesson for all students.

The Five Year Review in 2000 set out the chief purposes and intents of the National Curriculum for the first clip. The four chief intents of the National Curriculum are:

1. To set up an entitlement.
2. To set up criterions.
3. To advance continuity and coherency.
4. To advance public apprehension.

The National Curriculum has been put into topographic point in the hope that kids will accomplish and will hold an entitlement to larning irrespective of their background, be it race, gender, cultural or otherwise.A It besides makes outlooks for kids ‘s attainment explicit for all concerned and sets out national criterions for performance. These criterions can so be used for mark scene, mensurating advancement and monitoring patterned advance.

The Foundation Stage was introduced by the Labour authorities in 2000, to supply counsel for scenes which provide attention and instruction to pre-school kids ( aged 3 to 5 ). It was named the Foundation Stage because “ … it lays the foundations for kids ‘s subsequently larning”. It evolved from the Rumbold Report of 1990, which investigated the educational proviso for the under 5 ‘s, and found that there was a patchy, unplanned course of study which was unsatisfactory.

In 2004 a reappraisal was carried out of Key Stage 4, from this reappraisal the debut of ‘Entitlement topics ‘ . The Curriculum Entitlement Framework provides students with entree to a wider scope of larning chances suited to their demands, aptitudes and involvements, irrespective of where they live or the school they attend.

In 2007 the authorities abolished formal written Key Stage 1 SATS and replaced them with instructor recorded appraisals. The Key Stage 1 appraisals are really low key and completed by the student ‘s instructor over a period of a few hebdomads so they will be barely cognizant that an appraisal is taking topographic point.

In 2008 a reappraisal of Secondary National Curriculum resulted in new Key Stage 3 and 4 Curriculum which was introduced in 2009. This updated portion of the course of study now offers Diplomas and other options to current GCSE and A-level scrutinies.

In 2009 the so current Labour authorities announces that Key Stage 3 Sats scrutinies are to be abolished and that Sir Jim Rose will be carry oning a full reappraisal of the Primary National Curriculum. The findings of the study will be implemented from September 2011.

In May 2010 a general election was held and ‘New Conservative ‘ / Liberal Democrat authorities came to power under David Cameron and Nick Clegg. The hereafter changes to the new primary national course of study which were put frontward by Sir Jim Rose to be implemented from September 2011 have been shelved, the authorities saying that it does non mean to continue with the new primary course of study. Alternatively they are committed to giving schools more freedom from unneeded prescription and bureaucratism. They have ever made clear their purpose to do alterations to the National Curriculum that will guarantee ‘a grim focal point on the rudimentss and give instructors more flexibleness than the proposed new primary course of study offered.

The National Curriculum has undergone considerable alteration and development over the past 20 old ages and is still being altered and adjusted at the present twenty-four hours. Controversy still exists as to the attack instruction should follow for those over the age of 14 testing is thought to be to a great extent based on callback of cognition promoting a deficiency of accomplishment development activities. Many of the original topics that were compulsory no longer are, as it was felt the course of study was excessively full.

In my sentiment, since the debut of the National Curriculum, I believe that it was the anchor to greatly bettering the criterions of instruction that kids receive in today ‘s society. This is because before the criterion of instruction pupils received was extremely based on category position and was typically biased towards the in-between / upper category households, another factor was your vicinity in the state. Teachers besides taught a scope of topics that they wished to learn as there were no set subjects so what you could be taught varied across the state. This led to many pupils go forthing school with limited cognition.

With the debut of the Literacy and Numeracy hours Sats consequences have increased once more of the subsequent old ages but once more now have slowed to a arrest. As seen in the tabular array below.

But on the impudent side holding felt that on the whole the National Curriculum is effectual it is besides slightly flawed. Children are ‘taught to the trial ‘ at a hurt to other topics, and so they are losing out on a wide and balanced course of study.

Schools and learning staff will besides acknowledge that they are being forced to “learn to the trial” ; cutting out topics such as history, geographics and art to blow up their place on national conference tabular arraies or else expression as if they are neglecting.

The national trials besides distort kids ‘s instruction as they are being offered a restricted timetable as instructors are forced to concentrate on the nucleus topics. In a figure of schools an accent on trials in English, Mathematics and Science limits the scope of work in these topics in peculiar twelvemonth groups, every bit good as more loosely across the course of study in some primary schools.

Having said this, the positive points outweighed the negative greatly as it was the start towards the National Curriculum that we presently have today.

During the reconstruction era over two thousand African Americans served in federal, state, and local offices. Information on these individuals is difficult to find, seeing as during this time black lawmakers were condemned as subhuman, and in no need of documentation. Eric Foner, author of Black Politicians in the Reconstruction Era, stated that of the two thousand he only found about 1465 for his book. A great deal of the information on these men and the offices they held was obscure and incorrect.

Many scholars had false information about the education level of these African American lawmakers. For example, many scholars claimed that most black delegates to the Georgia convention were illiterate, actually twenty-two of these thirty-seven could read and write. This was impressive seeing as it was against the law in many states for African Americans to be taught how to read or write. The basic research on these politicians was not done because these scholars thought they knew all they needed to know.

These lawmakers were black; many were ex-slaves, so they must have been ignorant, corrupt, and incompetent, this was the stereotype, but it was not so! Many of the African American leaders saw fit to educate themselves. Men like John Roy Lynch, who took time off from his photographer”s studio to observe a white classroom from across an alley. He continued this until he had mastered all of the classes taught there. Situations like this show the desire and determination these men had to learn. He used this training to become speaker of the Mississippi house and later a member of congress.

These are only two of the many examples of African Americans who self educated themselves in a time when African Americans were banned from education. Others did have a formal education. In South Carolina, State Treasurer Francis L. Cardozo attended Glasgow and London. He was a minister in New Haven and a principal for the School for Blacks in Charleston. These were better credentials than some white politicians had. Economically black politicians were in no way reaping the monetary rewards that Conservatives and white carpetbaggers enjoyed.

While African Americans status impressive compared to other freedmen, most could not translate political power into a share of the economic growth of their states. Even prominent leaders such as Hiram Revels, who was the first the first black man to serve in the United States Senate sometimes found it necessary to take small loans from white politicians to meet every day expense. The reconstruction era was a difficult time for African American politicians. In a time when negative stereotypes where all too common, and the color of your skin determined your level of intelligence in the eyes of many.

Black leaders had to work twice as hard to accomplish half as much. An extremely relevant point, and a credit to the African American politicians was the fact that there was a very small amount of vindictiveness in their actions and words. They had no dreams or desires to take advantage, or become greedy with the power they were beginning to acquire. They seemed more fixated on receiving what they thought they were entitled to. Beverly Nash, a member of the South Carolina convention, asserted in his first speech, “the white man is a true friend of the black man.

He went on to say, “I you could see the scroll of the society that banner represents, you would see the white man and the black man standing with their arms locked together, as the type of friendship we desire. ” Even when some leaders such as Henry McNeal Turner, who was almost universally disliked by whites, still did what he could to assist in helping the white economy recover its economic strength. Even after all that was done to them, the black leaders held no resentment, and worked for the benefites of blacks and whites as a whole.

In conclusion, there are many misconceptions about African American leaders during the era of reconstruction. From their level of education, to the positions they held, and the lifestyles they lead. Black leaders were equally, if not more qualified than their white counter parts for political positions. Unfortunately they were not being compensated in the same manner as the white politicians.