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By Howard Stevenson, University of Nottingham Staff in the UK’s ‘older universities’ are currently in a significant industrial dispute to defend their pensions. At the time of writing members of the University and College Union (UCU) have taken 14 days strike action, and are currently balloting on whether to accept...

By Mário Nogueira, General Secretary of FENPROF, Federação Nacional dos Professores (Portugal) In Portugal, public schools are the prevailing model and their success can be measured in different ways depending on the context.

By Clara Fontdevila, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona. During the last two decades, there has been a significant rise in the relative numbers of non-state education providers as well as the share of private education enrolment in Peru. This change has been particularly striking in urban areas – in the case of...

By Sylvain Marois Vice-president, University Sector, Fédération nationale des enseignantes et enseignants du Québec   This blog was originally published in French

By Howard Stevenson, University of Nottingham School students in England currently find themselves at the centre of a giant experiment in the marketisation of education, with the real possibility that they will pay for this ideological gamble with their futures.  Those least able to bear the cost of policy incompetence...

By Frank Adamson, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) On July 5th, 2017, the Education Minister of Liberia, George Werner, gave a keynote speech in Washington D.C. that outlined the role of charter schools in the developing world.[1] It is worth unpacking the empirical and geographic layers of...

By Clara Fontdevila and Antoni Verger, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona The philanthropic sector has experienced significant changes in the last few decades. Not only has the sector become increasingly diverse but, more importantly, a new entrepreneurial approach has gained centrality.

By Steve Klees, University of Maryland To experiment with the possible privatisation 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 has been a very controversial experiment, both in Liberia and worldwide. ...

By Bob Lingard, The University of Queensland, Australia Teacher Unions have provided important resistance and organised opposition to the Global Education Industry in nations and globally. This piece reflects on three examples of potential, manifest and successful teacher opposition to the privatisation and commercialisation of public schooling.

By Eloísa Bordoli*, Pablo Martinis*, Mauro Moschetti**, Stefanía Conde* y Marcelo Alfonzo*  *Universidad de la República (UdelaR)**Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

By Angelo Gavrielatos, Education International Between 6-23 June 2017, during its 35th session, the UN's Human Rights Council adopted a follow-up resolution on the right to education.

By Lynsey Robinson, EQUIPPPS & Jasmine Gideon, Birkbeck, University of London The landscape of partnerships in international development has been changing rapidly over the past decade, with significant realignment of roles between the state, private and third sectors[i] .This has led to Public Private Partnerships[ii] being promoted as the solution...

By Tejendra Pherali, University College London & Pramod Bhatta, Tribhuvan University In recent decades, private network schools and ‘low-fee’ private schools have grown significantly in low-income contexts in Africa and South Asia. The former represents increasing commodification of education and the education sector as a domain of business/commercial investment and;...

By Anna Hogan, the University of Queensland  The privatisation of public education is attracting a lot of attention around the world but what is happening within public schooling is falling under the radar. Increases in commercialisation in public schooling is attracting less scrutiny. Commercialisation is the creation, marketing and sale...

By Momina Afridi, University of Toronto Low fee private schools under the umbrella of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in education in Punjab, Pakistan are increasingly being embraced by international donors, international non-governmental organisations and the government.

By Susan L. Robertson, University of Cambridge I often puzzle over how it is that though we know so much about the spectacular failures of privatisation initiatives in the social and education sectors, international agencies and governments, from the UK to the USA and Liberia continue to be hell-bent on...

By Tyler Hook, University of Wisconsin In September 2016, the Ministry of Education of Liberia officially launched a public private partnership called the Partnership Schools for Liberia (PSL) pilot, with 8 providers operating 93 schools. Promoted with the aim of dramatically improving learning outcomes for children, in an equitable, cost-effective,...

By Chris Bonnor Whenever Australian educators go overseas they are often asked how we provide and fund schools in the antipodes. It's hard to explain because it is complicated and at odds with practice elsewhere. It is a story about the failure of policy, supported by mounting evidence that our...