1.Main Topic Area:
Digital divide among high school students from urban and rural areas in Malaysia, for example, Kuala Lumpur which has the highest penetration rate(119.4) and Kelantan which has the lowest penetration rate(43.8).
2.Main Problem Identified:
The disparity in the accessibility of educational information causes high school students from rural areas to have comparatively lower performances in studies. Thus, they have disadvantages in competing with high school students from urban population to get into more prestigious universities.
3.Proposed Solutions:
To narrow the gap of internet usage between high school students from urban and rural areas, the Ministry of Education should allocate more budget in increasing broadband penetration in rural areas by providing adequate facilities such as computer rooms in schools to improve internet connectivity.
4.Proposed Thesis:
As high school students from rural areas are comparatively less competitive than students from urban areas to have better tertiary education as a result of disparity in the accessibility in educational information, the Ministry of Education of Malaysia should speed up the actions in narrowing the digital divide among high school students by allocating more budget in increasing broadband penetration in rural areas so that fair competition among high school students to get into more prestigious universities occurs.
Hi Jia Ning,
ReplyDeletewe felt that the overall outline is clear and well- defined.
However, we felt that there might be some amendment required for the proposed thesis statement:
”… accessibility in educational information” to “accessibility in online educational information” which we feel would be more explicit in stating your case to close the digital divide between the rural and urban schools.