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A reason for adult education

That's an interesting question Sandra,

You've probably noted we're advocating a faculty for social enterprise and it's down to the territory.

As with our earlier efforts in Russia we are dealing with a population with very high education standards, in Tomsk for instance, something like 25% of the population was educated to Phd level.

Likewise in Ukraine, with it's wealth of agricultural and mineral resources, replete with doctors, accountants, teachers and nuclear physicists and yet a population under stress, due to the effects of greed and corruption. Hence it's possible for children to die in the streets due to starvation or to be locked away if disabled or orphaned in the simple economic context of families unable to feed them. 

Those institutionalised leave in their mid-teens to enter a society for which they're not prepared and which has not made provision for them, a society where practically everything can be bought at a price, they are therefore a disposable low cost commodity.

As for the rest of the adult population, one needs to consider the likes of a nuclear physicist made redundant under arms reduction agreements and stuggling to make ends meet. What more dangerous commodity could there be in the world market?

Hence, our proposal for a social enterprise faculty. Having resolved a social problem, we need to ensure that others don't simply follow on and fill the void, that we have delivered more than a respite or band aid solution, that having won our battle against greed and corruption, we continue to do so.  

Regards,

Jeff 

 

 

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