Interview
The research was conducted in order to investigate the accessibility of education in poor countries, which plays a significant role in maintaining equal rights and ensuring opportunities for every individual. This study has utilised both qualitative and quantitative methods to ensure a comprehensive understanding of the research objectives. Group members reached a consensus to divide the tasks among each member, allowing each person to concentrate on their individual research at early stages.
During the stage of collecting data and investigation, members conducted interviews with participants, allowing for in-depth insights into the experiences and angles of perspectives. The participant who participated in the interview is a student named Ammar from Sudan, which is a developing country currently going through a conflict within its territory, aligning with the requirement of our topics on impoverished nations and ensuring the acquisition of essential information that is needed by the team.
The advantages and disadvantages, as well as the reliability of the sources, were also part of the objectives. In order to answer these research goals, certain members concentrated on gathering measurable data based on published research, surveys, and studies, which can be analysed and concluded statistically.
The mixed approach of qualitative and quantitative methods ensured comprehensive insights that allowed the team to have a better understanding of the research objectives. Overall, the chosen methodology effectively supported the team to collect data, go for an analysis, and eventually reach a conclusion to wrap the research up.
Q1) Do you believe that education is a fundamental right? Why or why not?
All our respondents believed that education should be a fundamental right, they believed that education provides a way to improve their lives and get out of the cycle of poverty, that everybody deserved a right to education regardless of the situation they were born into and that its sad that so many children in the world have no access to the education that would prove more than useful to their lives.
Q2) How important do you think technology is in making education more accessible?
Most thought that technology is making education more accessible, with different perspectives ranging from technology allowing more access to educational resources, better infrastructure. There was also an interesting perspective of a possible segregation caused by different access to technology.
Q3) Do you believe online learning can help bridge the education gap in developing countries? Why or why not?
Most thought it was a good idea, with some saying it offers access to education without the need for more additional school related resources, saying that internet access and electricity is needed for a lot of other abundantly useful things, education access is just another benefit of it. However, some were critical of it saying that it is possible that the students who have never learned in an education setting before would not adapt well to the online learning environment and that a traditional classroom is more suited to conditions to better receive education.