ABSTRACT
The world is becoming knowledge based as progressive countries invest in education for the entire population, recognizing that the key to any further development is education. The major problem in industrially developing countries (IDCs) is a shortage of educated people. This is due to many factors, such as lack of compulsory education for children, low incomes (families who augment their income from child labor cannot afford to send their children to school), and a shortage of schools and teachers in some remote places. Further, there are places in IDCs where education is seen as appropriate only for boys, and where girls may even be actively prevented from going to school. In this milieu, few students have the opportunity to attend universities due to high costs and a scarcity of institutions of higher learning.
