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Tag Archives: private schools
More meaningful government engagement with all education actors could improve learning in Bangladesh
This blog is written by Mobarak Hossain, Independent Consultant, the author of a case study on accountability and education in Bangladesh commissioned for the 2017/8 GEM Report. The blog is part of a series showing that accountability in education is shaped by a … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, private schools, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, bangladesh, country case study, private schools
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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
Posted in private schools, private sector, privatisation, Uncategorized
Tagged liberia, private schools, privatisation
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Governments need to ensure rules are followed in education
By Manos Antoninis, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report, UNESCO No matter your job, you need standards to ensure that you are working to meet your objectives. Unfortunately, where education and schools are concerned, these standards sometimes do not … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, private schools, privatisation, sdg, sdgs, Teachers, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, private schools, SDG4, SDGs
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New GEM Report says ‘Don’t just blame the teacher when the system is at fault’
The 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report was released today at global events in Maputo, Mozambique, Brasilia, Brazil and in London, UK. It stresses that accountability is indispensable in achieving SDG 4. The Report highlights the responsibility of governments to … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Conflict, Developed countries, Developing countries, Equality, Inclusion, monitoring, privatisation, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Teachers, Testing, Training, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, education, governance, private schools, regulations, school choice, target 4.c, teachers, Testing
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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
Posted in Finance, private schools, private sector, Uncategorized
Tagged Bridge Academy, private schools, public-private
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The Arguments and Evidence behind Public-Private Partnerships in Education
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 education, learning, private education, private schools, private sector
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When is state funding of private schools a violation of human rights?
By Sylvain Aubry, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights The announcement at the beginning of the year by the Ministry of Education of Liberia of its intention to outsource the management of all its pre-primary and primary schools … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Finance, Human rights, private schools, private sector, Quality of education, Uncategorized
Tagged finance, private schools, target 4.1
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