03 Mar 2017
Taming Educational Privatization by Fazal Rizvi
By Fazal Rizvi, the University of Melbourne, Australia. Over the past three decades, the idea of privatization in education has been widely... Read More
21 Feb 2017
Outsourcing Liberia’s Education System: A New level of Absurdity in Education Provisioning by Salim Akoojee
By Salim Akoojee, Independent Education and Training Analyst, South Africa and Hong Kong. The recent move to outsource Liberia’s education system in... Read More
07 Sep 2016
The Privatisation of Education: a Global Phenomenon with Multiple Faces by Antoni Verger, Clara Fontdevila and Adrián Zancajo
By Antoni Verger, Clara Fontdevila and Adrián Zancajo, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Education privatisation has become an important topic in the global... Read More
18 Aug 2016
The Roles and Responsibilities of Non-State Actors: The Case of Education and Training by Ezgi Yildiz
By Ezgi Yildiz, Graduate Institute, Geneva, and NORRAG Intern. As the separation between ‘public’ and ‘private’ is increasingly getting blurred, the state-centric... Read More
08 May 2015
Low-fee Private Schools in Peru By María Balarin
By María Balarin, Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), Lima, Peru. Low fee private schools are a growing phenomenon in many... Read More
22 Sep 2014
The Post-2015 EFA Agenda: UNESCO and the New Global Education Network By Maren Elfert
By Maren Elfert, University of British Columbia. The run-up to the next round of Education for All (EFA) and development goals lends... Read More
20 Mar 2014
International Private Sector Entities and Education Reform: a View from the CIES Conference By Alexandra Draxler
By Alexandra Draxler, Independent Consultant. In some OECD countries, education “reform” has of late become a code word for measures that involve... Read More
25 Feb 2014
Medium of Instruction and Professional Status of Teachers: Exploring the Public vs Private Schooling Debate By Kamlesh Narwana
By Kamlesh Narwana, University of Delhi, New Delhi. Over the last two decades, the low fee private (LFP) schools have witnessed an... Read More
12 Feb 2014
Public-Private Partnership Schools: A Better Option for Quality Education for All in Pakistan? By Ravish Amjad
By Ravish Amjad, Annual Status of Education Report, Pakistan. The two major problems faced by Pakistan’s education sector remain the huge number... Read More
05 Aug 2013
Much Ado about Low-Fee Private Schools
By Modupe Adefeso-Olateju, Education Partnership Center, Nigeria. I recently visited an educational establishment in Lagos to conduct some research. For ease... Read More