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Category Archives: private sector
South Africa’s private sector calls for an end to pit latrines in schools
Reports of children dying by falling into pit latrines in South Africa over the past few years followed by a flurry of legal cases saw the President launch a new Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) Initiative last week in partnership … Continue reading
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Tagged learning environments, private sector, sanitation, Target 4.a
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Using international accountability mechanisms: A test case for private education in Kenya
By Linda Oduor-Noah, a project manager at The East African Centre for Human Rights (EACHRights) on behalf of nine complainants who submitted a complaint through the complaint mechanism of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in April 2018. EACHRights is a … Continue reading
How to respond to Apple’s renewed interest in education?
As you may have heard, Apple has extended its reach into education, holding its first education product launch since 2012, and announcing a lower cost iPad aimed at students and teachers. The new iPad has a stylus pen, several new … Continue reading
Posted in ICT, private sector, sdg, sdgs, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged ICT, ICT skills, private sector, Target 4.4, technology
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The Partnership Schools for Liberia: A critical analysis
By Steven J. Klees, University of Maryland To experiment with the possible privatization of its primary education system, Liberia initiated the Partnership Schools of Liberia (PSL), which turned over the management of 93 public schools to eight private contractors. This … Continue reading
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Tagged liberia, private schools, privatisation
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What matters for education reform? Lessons from the Partnership Schools for Liberia experiment and beyond
Engaging the private sector to overcome the learning crisis is all the rage in global education. This is giving rise to heated debates, as evident from responses to a paper just published on Liberia’s high-profile ‘Partnership Schools for Liberia’ (PSL) … Continue reading
Posted in Finance, Innovative financing, private schools, private sector, Uncategorized
Tagged private schools, private sector, privatisation
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Liberia’s children deserve the best education
By: Dr. Saaim W. Naame, Dean of Education at the University of Liberia. Over the last twenty years, the people of Africa’s first modern republic, Liberia, have been through two civil wars and a major virus epidemic. The wars caused … Continue reading
Partnerships with non-state providers need to be approached with caution
By Alina Lipcan and Ian MacAuslan Low levels of learning globally make for one of the most sobering statistics in education. In 12 out of 13 countries in South-Eastern Africa, fewer than 40% of students had mastered basic numeracy and basic … Continue reading
In Liberia, a town struggles to adjust to its new charter school
By Ashoka Mukpo, journalist When the community of Kollita Wolah built their schoolhouse in 1989, it was a proud moment. Located a few kilometers to the north of Gbarnga, a bustling hub city in central Liberia, residents of the town … Continue reading
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Tagged Bridge Academy, private schools, public-private
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Evaluating Liberia’s private school partners: why policy decisions must be based on more than numbers
By Stuart Cameron, Senior Education Consultant at Oxford Policy Management. ‘Partnership Schools for Liberia’ (PSL) is a hot topic in education policy circles. A pilot programme outsourcing control of government primary schools to eight private providers, it has attracted considerable … Continue reading
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Tagged education international, liberia, partnerships, private sector
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Education needs to fundamentally change if we are to reach our global development goals
The new Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report by UNESCO, released this morning, shows the vast potential for education to propel progress towards all global goals outlined in the new Sustainable Development Agenda (SDGs). But, if education is to fulfill that … Continue reading
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Tagged target 4.6, target 4.7
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