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Education and development a brief history -- Education as an economic investment -- The right to education -- Education and human development -- Education, gender and development -- Education and/as violence -- Education and sustainable development a new development agenda

This article is a case study on the education of Orang Asli in Malaysia. Indigenous people or "orang asli" are the oldest inhabitants of Peninsular Malaysia but they are the minority among the total population in Malaysia. A study showed that around 50 percent of the students from the Orang Asli community do not further their study in secondary school after finishing their primary school and only 30 percent of students of Orang Asli finish their secondary school, which is less than half of the national average. The statistics of the education progress of Orang Asli are quite worrisome for a lot of parties especially the government and there are a lot of factors that contribute to those, not good-looking results. In order to improve the quality of education, studies on the challenges faced by the Orang Asli are a must. There are a lot of factors causing that specific problem. One of the factors is would be the awareness amongst the Orang Asli community towards education and another factor is would be the Orang Asli accessibility to their nearest education institution. In a nutshell, the Orang Asli are the minority communities that had been marginalized for decades and to achieve the aim to reduce poverty and uplift quality of life them, education is the main key to success.

A REASONABLE ASSUMPTION ABOUT LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITIES WOULD BE THAT THE MORE THEY KNOW ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THEIR SERVICES THE BETTER PLACED THEY WILL BE TO IMPROVE THEIR FUTURE POLICIES. THE ASSUMPTION IS FLAWED. SOME EDUCATION AUTHORITIES ARE FINDING THAT IS NOT POLITICALLY EXPEDIENT TO ACT ON WHAT IS KNOWN AND THAT IT IS THEREFORE BETTER NOT TO KNOWN IN THE FIRST PLACE. A LEFT-WING EDUCATION COMMITTEE, FOR INSTANCE, MAY NOT WANT TO BE TOLD THAT ITS POLICY OF EMPLOYING THE SAME NUMBER OF TEACHERS FOR A DIMINISHING SCHOOL POPULATION IS NOT PRODUCING A GAIN IN THE LEVEL OF CHILDREN'S ACHIEVEMENT. SUCH ACHIEVEMENT WAS NEVER REALLY THE ISSUE; THE ISSUE WAS THE PROTECTION OF JOBS. SMALLER CLASSES BECOME AN END IN THEMSELVES AND FOR MAINTAINING JOBS. EQUALLY, MATTERS SUCH AS TRUANCY AND EVEN LITERACY AND NUMERACY CAN BE TRANSFORMED FROM EDUCATIONAL ISSUES INTO GENERAL "SOCIAL" ISSUES. SO THE CAUSES OF TRAUNCY, ILLITERACY AND SO FORTH ARE REMOVED FROM THE RESPONSIBILITY OF TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS AND PLACED IN THE MORE GENERAL AREA OF SINGLE-PARENT FAMLIES, UNEMPLOYMENT AND CLASS. NOT ONLY IS THIS MUCH RICHER AREA FOR POLITICKING, BUT IT NEED NOT INVOLVE THE LOCAL POLITICIAN IN ASKING TOO CLOSELY ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE OF HIS EMPLOYEES IN THE SCHOOLS