VOA慢速英語:報道稱教育質量不佳使得每年損失上百億美元

From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report.

這里是美國之音慢速英語教育報道。

Recently, there have been efforts to make sure children in Africa get a good strong education. But a new report says governments are losing about $129 billion every year on poor quality education. As a result, about one in four students in poor countries cannot read a complete sentence, that represents about 175 million young people.

全球最近一直在努力確保非洲兒童獲得良好教育。但一份新的報告稱，每年各國政府因為教學質量差損失1290億美元。其結果就是大約1/4的貧窮國家學生不會讀一句完整的句子，這代表著1.75億年輕人。

The report comes from UNESCO - the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It says poor teacher training and spending cuts are just two of the reasons for underperforming school systems.

該報告來自聯(lián)合國教科文組織。報告稱，教師培訓欠佳和開支削減是學校系統(tǒng)表現(xiàn)不佳的其中兩個原因。

Pauline Rose, an education specialist directed the report. She says more teachers are needed across Africa, especially in countries south of the Saharan desert. She says the area would need about 225,000 additional teachers a year to guarantee a primary school education for all boys and girls by 2015.

寶琳·羅斯(Pauline Rose)是指導該報告的教育專家。她表示，非洲各地尤其是撒哈拉沙漠以南的國家需要更多教師。她說，該地區(qū)每年需要新增大約22.5萬名教師以保證到2015年所有孩子能接受小學教育。

Miss Rose says governments like to save money by using contract teachers. These educators are not government employees but work under a special agreement. Contract teachers can be easily dismissed if found to be underperforming. They also earn far less money than teachers working for the government. Contract teachers represent more than half of the teaching work force in many West African countries.

羅斯小姐表示，各國政府喜歡通過使用合同制教師省錢。這些教育工作者并非公務員而是根據一項特別協(xié)議為政府工作。合同制教師如果表現(xiàn)不佳能夠被輕松解雇，他們掙的也比公職教師少得多。在很多西非國家，合同制教師占到了教師隊伍的一半以上。

Pauline Rose says teachers need to have a strong desire to help children learn. She says they should want to be in the classroom instead of doing other jobs. In recent years, financial support for education has gone down or stayed the same in many countries.

羅斯表示，教師們需要有幫助孩子們學習的強烈愿望。她說，他們應該想要上課而不是做其它工作。近年來，許多國家對教育的財政支持有所下降或維持不變。

The UNESCO report says governments will need to increase spending on education. Miss Rose says governments can do better on collecting taxes and making sure everyone pays their fair share of taxes. She says governments could also offer good housing to make sure impoverished areas have enough teachers.

聯(lián)合國教科文組織表示，各國政府將需要增加教育經費。羅斯小姐表示，各國政府可以在征稅上做得更好，并確保每個人公平納稅。她說，各國政府還可以提供良好住房以確保貧困地區(qū)有足夠的師資。

The report says South Africa gives six times more money to students in areas with low education levels and high unemployment. Malawi is creating teacher colleges to train new candidates for teaching positions in skills for rural areas. And Ethiopia is urging mentors and supervisors to help support teaching candidates.

該報告表示，南非向低教育水平和高失業(yè)地區(qū)的學生提供了6倍以上的資金。馬拉維正在創(chuàng)建師范院校為農村地區(qū)培訓新的教學職位人選。而埃塞爾比亞正督促導師和主管人員幫助教師人選。