Challenges in the current education system the unseen problems

According to figure 3, The number of international students in Latvian HEI's, has showna downward trend since the year 2010. In the year 2010, the HEI's in Latvia were having16% of international students in its composition, which by the year 2016 has reduced toonly 13%, that is 3% less in the 6 year, which is a significant factor of consideration. The

HEI's in Latvia are continuously engaged in promoting the quality of education and training in order to attract international students and has been given priority by the government itself too THE UNSEEN PROBLEMS

Education Getting Expensive: The education as it was perceived before to be an affordable one, has over the period started to grow expensive. One major role in this has been played by the private institutions setting up higher standards and infrastructures witha higher structure of payments. In Latvia the ratio of private: public educational institutions are 21:13 that is there are 21 public universities and 13 private universities inLatvia. As shown in table 1 that the number of HEI's that is higher education institutionsin Latvia were 58 in the year 2016 and dropped down to 54 by the year 2019 and one major role player for their close down are the private institutions coming up and making it tougher.

Educational variances: As per the author there is not many education fields in the current education system to pick up from. The students are forced to decide from the limited number of educational fields to pick from even if they do not like it.

Affordability: Even if the students are affording their education in their given country itshighly possible that certain educations like Medical Education, Aeronautical or Marine Engineering are still very expensive. The students are compelled to travel and study to other countries that is affordable comparatively and can seek their education. Thus as transitional burden is always there, and often many students who would not want to moveto another country for education would end up choosing subjects or courses they do not like.

The steady promotion of lifelong learning platform: The lifelong learning program ofthe European Union is an aim to promote and motivate education in all group and age sections, however it is not being actively promoted and often the void is seen been occupying this space.

The Interest or work based Learning Overlooked: Where most of the countries are promoting interest based learning it is still not being popular or becoming a trend actively.People who have special interests in IT, Music, Nature, Chemicals, Masonry, Crafts, Electricals etc. would like to refine their skills and get educated in the sector they are working or have hobby or are just simply interested. However, this section is still achallenge to many students as they are not able to find the proper school or education accordingly as not many institutions can offer that.

They pay scale challenge: The students often high school needs various gadgets and toolsto study with the latest technologies being incorporated every day into the educational sectors and these high tech devices are not cheaper to afford ultimately the students are forced to work extra hours or depend upon the parents in order to source these gadgets. Amonetary stress apart from fees.

After Graduation impossible job hunts: The students believe that they will be hired bya good company or an enterprise after their education and often many international students come in this hope that an educational degree would eventually boost the future job prospects. However, this is seldom happening and many youngsters are left strugglingand applying for jobs over and over just to make ends meet. As shown in figure 3 numberof international students dropped significantly from the year 2010 to 2016 which alone shows that what the students “expect”, is not being achieved if not entirely than to some extent and eventually changing their preferences.

Teachers are magicians: The teachers are magicians is always what an institution expectthem to be when it comes to learning of new technologies implemented into the college or school. The constant stress teachers go through regularly updating themselves with these technological advancements is beyond comprehension. The institutions often expectthat teachers are aware of those tools and expect better results straight away which is again a problem which the teachers go through without anyone noticing it. The unseen problem.

Over occupied Teachers: The teachers now a days are over occupied, they have to designcourse sometimes, teach, take exams, monitor progress, be a supervisor, guide, get themselves trained, check the research works and so on. Even though the digital tools coming into help the lives of teachers, they are still very busy and thus students miss thatpersonal connection.

The parents struggle: Education no doubt wherever in the world, it is every parents wantthat their kids get to have the best education from the best of the best schools possible. Right form the kindergarten till the doctorate, the education is analyzed on the basis of thequality of the organization and its offerings. As mentioned earlier the “Private” educational organizations are expensive because they are providing international standards and infrastructures and other means to their students and thus the stress comes up on the parents to earn more, so that they could accommodate the education cost of theirloved ones and doing so it is often seen they are working overtime and there is a disconnection in the family where it should be connected, another unseen problem.

Educational Organizations Struggle: The educational organizations have to struggle with almost on a daily basis, since every day there is a new course or theme being introduced a new research is being accepted and granted permissions or a new technologycoming into force, these educational institutions have to make sure they keep up with thetrends in the industry. However, to be competitive and accommodate things the organizations needs huge financial backings. The educational organizations are always onstress about enrolment of students and delivering them the standards. However, not all educational institutions can keep up with the constant changes and struggle to modify or change and thus have an impact on them by less student's enrolment or students shifting to other universities etc.

Technological Neglect: The technologies incorporating in today's education structure is commendable however it is almost 99.99% designed for abled students/children/adults/young adults. No major emphasis is given towards theeducational advancements for people who are disabled, or suffer autism, etc. The technology drivers often simply neglect this section because they do not make up themajority again and unseen problem which can be felt but not seen.

Conclusion & Suggestion

The article shows that there is a cycle that is interconnected, which involves everyone during this phase such as students, parents, teachers, organizations etc. The problems arethere which are unseen and everyone attached to the current education system is facing some sort of challenges which are shown above. However, they are all linked and if one gets crippled the others will get affected. For instance, if parents cannot afford the kids cannot have better education, if there is less enrolment the educational institutions will eventually shut down and the teachers will lose their jobs.

A suggestion that can be seen to overcome this problem is to develop a cloud education cycle where the connectivity is free and the cost is moderate. A system which is very welldesigned for the future decade and would not need upgrade and can run on older systemsas well in short a LMS that will be a boon to not only abled students but also disabled people wanting to learn. Eventually cutting down the cost and maintenance making the organizations not to worry about constant switches and at the same time making the parents, students, teachers happier.

References

1. AIC. (2020, March 7). Higher Education In Latvia. (Institutions of higher education). Latvia. Retrieved March 7, 2020, from http://www.aic.lv/rec/HE_2002/HE_LV/ed_sys/high_ins.htm

2. Central.Statistic.&.AIC. (2020, March 11). Higher Education Institution and colleges IZG 240. Riga, Latvia. Retrieved March 11, 2020, from http://data1.csb.gov.lv/pxweb/en/sociala/sociala izgl_augstsk/?tablelist=true

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