Education is not yet considered investment

Education is not yet considered investment

All citizens have the right to a proper education, which, in a dismal economy such as ours, is something of a luxury. Not all children of school age can afford to go to school, especially good schools, even if they are of high intelligence.

At present, access to good-quality tuition is not only strictly controlled by state universities but also privately run kindergartens, and junior and senior high schools. To register their children for an approved kindergarten, parents have to pay millions of rupiah, not to mention good-quality universities.

With that much money at stake, only children of well-off families have the opportunity to receive a good education. So what about those from low-income families?

The quality of education is determined by a number of factors, including methodology, structure and infrastructure, as well as the quality of the teachers. We all acknowledge that funding has become the main constraint in education today and this leads to inferior human resources.

In many developed countries education is considered an investment, so that students, including university students, are have access free of charge to tuition.

-- Republika, Jakarta