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Educational Inequalities in
Malaysia

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Education inequalities among students of rural and urban area creates isolation and
students are not aware of the scholarships granted to them for higher education. Education is a
process of facilitating learning or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs and habits.
Education is one of the important most important part of everyone's life and each one possess
right to education. Right to education provides equal right to each person to get same opportunity
for education whether in rural area or in urban area. Education gives knowledge of the world and
changes that takes place around the world. Through education a different perspective towards life
is generated that helps in living life in better manner (Bailey, Nomanbhoy and Tubpun, 2015).
In this project inequalities in the the education system existed in Malaysia will be
elaborated. Together with this how education in rural area is different form urban area and
various gap among them with reasons for the same. Various suggestions will be made to the
students in the rural area to get information and aspiration to further their studies and achieve
their goals.
MAIN BODY
This thesis is to explores some of the association between inequality, education and
economic growth in Malaysia. This is one of the successful country for generating high
economic growth rate and development. In Malaysia education is used as a wheel that leads to
reduction of inequalities and promote more and more economic growth. The issue of inequality
in education system is one of the primary concern and the cause to such problem is not only
limited to the gap in quality and accessibility of education in rural and urban area. Gap among
the rural and urban education system is one of the driving factor of educational inequality in
Malaysia. The another factor contributing to education inequality in the country is the Socio-
economic class disparity as no equal rights is provided to individuals of different class group to
get education (Bakar, 2014).
In Malaysia existence of educational inequalities leads students who belongs to low-
income families to deal with various disadvantages in educational fields because of non
availability of required resources. Low income earned by the parents of students make them
insufficient to meet with the requirements of finances that are required for getting higher
education. When skills of students or educational group is analysed than it is recorded that
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