During the start of the first term in my second year as a bachelor of science with education student, our lecturer assigned as a coursework task consisting of an education essay on about topics that involve current events or news, or current issues, concerns or problems in education. I decided to focus my topic on the stated of state or publicly funded educational facilities in the developing world because I previously read in a newspaper that many schools at the primary, secondary and tertiary education levels would usually have poor or sub-standard facilities and equipment due to various reasons.
So I decided to perform a thorough research about my essay topic so that I could correctly and properly discuss my topic and support with adequate and relevant information and produce a well-written education essay. In my research, I learned that the primary reasons for the poor or sub-standard educational facilities in the primary, secondary and tertiary education level schools are due to non-existent or inadequate funding and support from the national and local governments of many developing countries. In addition, there are several reasons on why there is always lack or delay in obtaining funding from the national and local government authorities.
In my research, I found out that the main reasons for the lack or delay in obtaining government funding for the educational facilities of state funded schools would be the inadequate budgets allocated by the national and local government agencies or organisations, allocated funds being diverted to other public projects, and funds being lost to graft and corruption. The other reasons for the poor quality of the school facilities in some developing countries would be schools located in the regions of the regular paths of disastrous storms, and facilities that are neglected or abandoned due to wars or other violent conflicts in the places where the schools are located.
