Afiqah Mahamad

1. EQUITY: PROBLEMS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EDUCATION POLICIES AND REFORMS IN MALAYSIA 2. TOWARD AN EQUITY PEDAGOGY FOR SCHOOL MATHEMATICS: AN INVESTIGATION OF PRE-SERVICE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ CONCEPTIONS 3. AN ISSUE OF EQUITY: THE FINANCING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES WITH AN EMPHASIS ON TEXAS 4. Educational Equity or Educational Equality 5. DEFINING EQUITY AND ADDRESSING THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF EQUITY IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION 6. DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A DEFINITION OF EQUITY OF EDUCATION FINANCE AND A MEASUREMENT OF IDAHO SCHOOL DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE CHANGE IN CONTROL OF EDUCATION FINANCE AS A RESULT OF THE INCORPORATION OF THE 1% INITIATIVE INTO IDAHO CODE AND ITS EFFECT UPON THE EQUITY OF IDAHO EDUCATION FINANCE. 7. Equal Educational Opportunity Expressed as Equity: School-Site Expenditures in a Utah School District 8. Equality and Education in South Africa: A Policy Analysis 9. Equality of Opportunity: Equal Acces

INTRODUCTION 1.0 INTRODUCTION             Education is an important role in determining how we spend our adult life, usually a higher level of education means higher earnings, better health and a longer life. In Malaysia, education has allocated a large portion of its resources to education and education should be available to everyone. Other than, accessibility, equity in education also a concern in Malaysia. Equity has been one of the issues in education ever since education was made public (Levačić, 2000). Equity also a main objective in many countries because of the amount resources it consumes and it has been increasing from time to time (Siphambe, 2000).             Therefore, to make a society to be more equitable, a fair system must have advantages of education that are available to everyone. However, there are still certain groups have not risen and have troubles in inequalities of income and wealth and it affects their education. There are many still left behind in edu

The Challenges in Achieving Equity & Equality in Education  Concern: In Malaysia, there are multilingual population: Malay, Chinese, Indian and others ethnic groups. Equity and equality has been a sensitive issues for this culture. This matters have being discussed for a long time since 1951 in Barnes report where it more focusing on Malay Nationalism which not favored by other races. But then, the government allowing the vernacular schools to cater the needs of Chinese and Indian community. So generally rights to access to lower and secondary education in Malaysia is equals to all majority races. Then, we have Vision 2020 document which it predict a fully developed economy with national unity and social cohesion, social justice and political stability adhering to high standards of quality of life including social and cultural values. However, to move ahead in achieving the national mission of Vision 2020, the highest development priorities that remain are greater equity