Rural Education, an Important Factor of Regional Development in the Context of Local Government Strategies

Abstract

Rural education is one of the important factors in regional development supported by the central government. Implementing policies, it facilitates the effective functioning of the new roles assumed by other actors. With decentralization, local governments will have to assume greater responsibilities and would become the focal centres for local development. Local governments have to be effectively linked with national levels as well as with local communities. They would be expected to undertake certain activities hitherto performed the central government, such as certain legal and regulatory functions and the provision of services like extension. In addition, especially with increased demand and diversification of economic activities mainly due to the growing emphasis on globalization and associated changes, they would be entrusted with extra responsibilities. As a result, these may include guiding local communities, especially at the take-off stage, facilitating the capacity-building of local communities, catalyzing the interactions between the community organizations and the organized private sector, installation of monitoring mechanisms, etc. In order to do this, we summarized critical points in rural education development. We proposed an informatics programme able to analyze the performance of the education system in regional development based on major indicators of efficiency and effectiveness.