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Inequalities Of Education Essay

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Everyone has the same right to study and to obtain enough education today, and it must be available to everyone equally. People say that is just the way it is, and they tend to think there are no problem with it if they do not suffer from any inequalities. In fact, however, there are some issues which must be resolved by society because some people are not able to gain access to third level education. This easy will discuss the reason why such inequalities of education exist, strategies to deal with them, and other issues from two aspects: financial circumstances and disabilities.

Money is one of the biggest factors to obtain a good education. However, there are some problems which occur because of a difference in financial circumstances, …show more content…

However, it completely changed and the society started to make an effort to tackle such problem. In the beginning, for instance, support system like ambassador had increased. The National Council for the Blind in Ireland hold a school for blind third level students and it has ambassador programmes. Besides, Trinity College Dublin has 1,400 third level students with disabilities because of a programme which allows students to show their features to college. Second, technology had developed and it became a big support. Once, if people who have dyslexia or some physical disabilities, they relied on “note-takers”, but they can use smart pens because technology had developed. In addition, the University of Limerick started a state-of-the-art Educational Assistive Technology Centre to educate the options of assistive technology software and hardware. Because of these supports, the number of students with disabilities had increased. However, the increase of such supports can cause other problems. According to Carl O’Brien, the number of students with disabilities has more than tripled in a decade and because of the growth of funding per individual students has dropped. If the amount of such funding increase, the price of tax could increase. Hence, we must recheck what we can do for

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