Tag Archives: private sector

What matters for education reform? Lessons from the Partnership Schools for Liberia experiment and beyond

Posted on 12 September 2017 by

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 , , | 14 Comments

Evaluating Liberia’s private school partners: why policy decisions must be based on more than numbers

Posted on 16 February 2017 by

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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The Arguments and Evidence behind Public-Private Partnerships in Education

Posted on 5 July 2016 by

By Donald Baum, Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Economics, Brigham Young University Over the last few months, Liberia has become the site of and source for significant debate over its decision to initiate a large scale public-private partnership (PPP) … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Finance, private schools, private sector, teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Partnerships in education

Posted on 10 September 2015 by

Development partnerships in education have taken many forms, including our very own EFA Global Monitoring Report. Partnerships will be even more necessary if the sustainable development agenda is to be successfully implemented. It is for this reason that the OECD … Continue reading →

Posted in Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Economic growth, Equality, Governance, Innovative financing, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Business leaders at the World Economic Forum must boost finance for education

Posted on 18 January 2013 by

As political and business leaders gather in Davos for another year’s World Economic Forum, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report has released a new policy paper  showing that contributions from corporations and private foundations combined total only $683 million … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Economic growth, Out-of-school children, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Teachers, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | 13 Comments