The Main Urban Education Issues Facing Society

By Michelle Robinson


Educational institutions in towns and cities undergo various problems on a day to day basis. Most of these problems come as a result of the high population in the areas. The problems experienced by such institutions are often unique and are not necessarily experienced by their counterparts in the less populated areas. Though they also have their strengths that their counterparts in rural or less populated areas may not have too, this guide focuses on the challenges. Below are some of the common urban education issues.

The number of students in the institutions are too large and may sometimes get out of hand. The academic institutions in highly populated places are overcrowded with students. This leads to problems in sanitation as well as in the sharing of inadequate resources. The proportionate ratio of students to teachers in such schools leads to generally divided teacher's attention to their students. This may lead to poor performance by students.

The institutions suffer the challenges of teachers' inadequacy. The poor systems put into place by the teachers governing bodies has failed to provide enough teachers for the growing population. The educationist has to deal with the continuous increase in student population against the stagnant teachers' population. This usually leads to poor performance among students; a problem caused by not getting enough attention from their teachers.

The institutions are not well funded. It would be logical for the institutions to receive enough funding from the government to cater for the growing number of students. On the contrary, the institutions are run within a squeezed budget and are often faced with a lack of enough money to run them. This leads to a situation where they are run with little financial resources.

There is too much work for the teachers since they are few against a large population of students. Teachers and other educators in the schools are therefore overworked. It is like the government is trying to get the most out of the teachers with so little being invested. This leads to overburdening of the tutors and other staff members at the academic institutions.

Teachers are encountered with the task of teaching in multilingual classrooms. Teachers who have multilingual abilities may not suffer so much but their counterparts who only use English as their teaching language find it difficult to interact with the foreign students. The students also risk missing on so much. This is one of the problems that has been difficult to solve since it would require that teachers be taught more languages at the college level.

Noise and air pollution are rampant in cities and towns. Unlike is rural where there is no or little factories and congestion, in the cities things are different. This makes the academic institutions in those places vulnerable to the effects of such pollution. In some cases, the lessons may be interrupted by the noise that is coming from factories, people and cars.

Teachers have to deal with a diverse unit of learners. Working with diverse learners can be tough. Since the students and teachers come from different cultures, they may be difficult to deal with someone who does not understand their cultures well enough. Students may perceive certain actions as unfair even when that was not the intention.




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