the five biggest challenges are:

1. Quality education

2. Lack of Problem oriented education

3. Lack of art education (i.e. we are training head more as compared to hand and heart)

4. Education is moving away from humanity and human relations

5. More dependence on machines and computers.( machines becoming more dearer and important than life)

Firstly, thank you Dr. Aieman for your quesition

I think that one of the bige challenges is the digital education, on the other hands, the functional education may need for a teachers who have a profional competencies in teaching, techology and problem solving. Ethics may be the gige one because ethics reach all type of practies of teaching and education

Dear Dr Aieman,

I think that the challenges vary between developed countries and in developing countries. Therefore, I agree with Dr Ibrahim regarding developed countries. However, in developing countries still need to work on very basic issues such as: putting right people in the right places,  teacher-student-parent/teacher-parent--student/parent-teacher-student relationship, to clearly define why we learn and to spread this definition in a correct way,  develop teaching methods, and finally defining the standards for a minimum knowledge which should be parallel to the age (grade). 

Salam,

Yes, I would agree that technological advancement would have strong ramifications in education especially for developing countries not only with respect to the huge financial investment to be made but also on the society's adaptations towards advancement. Education can now happen 24/7 and far beyond the classrooms but would the society be ready to embrace this new learning culture and benefit from it?

The gen-Y factor on the other hand is also a huge challenge for education of which the impact could be seen today. The whole teaching paradigm has to be changed to ensure that education is successful and the teaching fraternity is scrambling to ensure that knowledge delivered is updated and is of interest to the students. Are we ready for the coming Gen Z and Gen Alpha?

the five biggest challenges are:

1. Quality education

2. Lack of Problem oriented education

3. Lack of art education (i.e. we are training head more as compared to hand and heart)

4. Education is moving away from humanity and human relations

5. More dependence on machines and computers.( machines becoming more dearer and important than life)

Dear Dr. Aieman,

In my humble opinion, the greatest challenges facing education as we progress into the 21st-century are (and I shall only name the top TWO, which in reality are only ONE):

1) the further erosion of the strong instructor/student respect relationship that once existed, which has been catalyzed greatly by the increased use of social media (and the concomitant spread of disrespectful attitudes toward parents/mentors/instructors/ and all authority which tends to run rampant through these channels).

2) Dr, Ibrahim mentioned ethics, but please allow me to distill that into its essence of morals. I believe the #1 problem I name above, is largely due to an erosion in family morals ... in the morality of the respect that parents demand of children (and train them to give to other deserving mentors) as their first instructors. Education can only occur in a mind that has been taught the discipline to RECEIVE it from a very early age (infancy). 

Respectfully submitted, with best regards,

Bob Skiles

From where I stand, I think the biggest problem is the lack of competent and dedicated teachers who are able to take the extra mile to support the learner emotionally, cognitively and socially. The second problem in my view is that most education systems have become slaves to standards. We are killing ourselves and our students to meet standards and sit for a flurry of tests forgetting the role of the instructors in "character building". Another related problem is the weakness of the teacher preparation programs and the lack of in-service job-related training.  Most teacher preparation programs do not cater for the various and evolving needs of both the teachers and students; nor does the in-service training. Lack or absence of parental involvement in their kids' education is one of the issues that need to be addressed as well. Finally, poor learning environments ( PhYISICAL AND PHYSCHOLOGCAL ) along with unfavorable working conditions plague most of the educational system, especially in poor areas.

(1) Robust Pedagogy

(2) Development of hand on skill

(3) Focus on details

(4) Gap between Industry and academia

(5) lack of out of box thinking.

I appreciate all the comments made on the above poser, and I have benefitted from them. I wish to add few comments:

1. Prominence of under-age students’ syndrome: A case where students are exposed to the next higher level of education when their age does not qualify them, and thus are not matured emotionally. This brings about that inability of students to match their chronological age with their mental age, and Prominence of under-age students’ syndrome: A case where students are exposed to the next higher level of education when their age does not qualify them, and thus are not matured emotionallyto undertake the rigour of academics

2. Career-Family care syndrome: Career parents often do not provide the adequate parental care to cater for the emotional, physical and psychological needs of their children/wards for the education process. Such students are characterised by abandonment, delinquency, truancy, anti-social behaviours, etc.This is one of the factors contribution to decadence in the society today

I Appreciate the comments, suggestions, ideas,and I have lean a lot of issues from all of the friends on this address .

AS my point of the problem developed countries are may not the problem in developing country .If you take education for USA is not same education for Ethiopia. Becuase, philiosphy, aims,goals,objectives of them are different.

any way the common challenges that facing Misuses or Badly use of Technology economical, Political, Miss use of Diversitty, Miss use of Resources and Natural or manmade disaster, Tendency to Resist Change, Low-efficiency Education Systems, Coorption,teacher concen issues and quality eduation.

Whats app and Facebook, I think so are the biggest ones.