Topic 1: Does increasing travels between countries enable people to learn different cultures or to

Topic 65: Good facilities can be found in cities but not in the countryside. Therefore, 
new doctors and teachers should be sent to the countryside. To what extent do you 
agree or disagree?
 
( raise standards through practice) (discover rare, profound and difficult diseases), (rely on clinical 
skills, rather than advanced technology), (modernizations of the medical education system) 
(narrow access to medical treatment),
(hospitals and clinics are under-resourced and the work so difficult and un stimulating),
( teaching aid), (computer-based teaching),
(poorly paid), (make commitment to work), ( waste of human resource) ;
(stop the desire of individuals to seek a more satisfying quality of life for themselves and their 
families) (breach of human rights)
Poor facilities have been found as a common sight of rural areas. To improve this 
situation, some suggest that new doctors and teachers should be assigned with tasks in the 
countryside, but not in urban areas. There are some strong arguments for this suggested 
solution.
The first is that hospitals, clinics and schools are severely understaffed in rural areas, 
compared with their overstaffed counterparts in the city. The imbalance of resource and staff 
has chronic effects on the well-being of rural people. Lack of education or medication has 
made them among the most disadvantaged in a country. Allocating new doctors and teachers 
to those areas can at least provide a temporary solution. Besides, it helps address the issue of 
distributing the graduates from medical school and normal college, with filling those 
vacancies for physicians and teachers in rural communities.
To the doctors or teachers that graduate freshly with a degree only, working in rural areas 
enables them to enrich work experience within the shortest possible period of time. 
Opportunities are scarce in the city, where numerous candidates are in the race for a single 
position. The chance of raising standards through practice is so meager that it will over time 
hamper rural practitioners' career development and make them uncompetitive in a skill-based 
society. Facility shortage to many doctors in the country is an opportunity, instead of a 
challenge. They are in a position to rely more on clinical skills than on sophisticated 
equipment. For teachers, they teach with few teaching aids. All contribute to the increment of 
their skills.
Despite those benefits, the place of work should be chosen by doctors or teachers 
themselves and compulsory assortment is not justifiable. It is not ethical to stop the desire of 
individuals for a more satisfying quality of life. Needless to say working in rural areas has 
many issues to address, working conditions, transport and housing. For this reason, those 
graduates who volunteer to take rural employment deserve a better pay as a recognition of 
their contribution and also as an incentive.
From what has been discussed, working for a period of time in the country can benefit 
new teachers and doctors alike with increasing their work experience and meanwhile, address 
the service shortage facing those areas. However, the voluntary sign-up should be guaranteed, 
instead of compulsory assignment.
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1. Assign=appoint=send=allocate
2. Vacancy=position=post=job opportunity
3. Physician=doctor=general practitioner=surgeon
4. Meager=scanty=slim
5. Recognition=acknowledgement=appreciation=respect
6. Incentive=motivation=encouragement=inducement
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