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Some barriers indigenous communities face in accessing education: Living in remote or rural areas; Poverty; inability to pay transportation costs, fees or the purchase of materials; Linguistic challenges and shortage of qualified indigenous teachers; Absence of a core agreed curriculum that is culturally sensitive; Lack of adequate learning space; Inflexible timetables to allow parents and students to reach learning insitutions; Lack of designated funding to help bridge the gap with mainstream schools; Jurisdictional problems as to who is ultimately responsible for indigenous education: the government or the indigenous leaders? This also leads to difficulties with accountability; Lack of political will of both central government and indigenous leaders to resolve the issue ifuw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Education-of-Indigenous-Peoples.pdf
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:06:13 +0000

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