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Fighting the commercialisation of education 9 September 2016 Beware False Profits of Easy Learning
By Stephen Dinham, University of Melbourne, Australia Television shopping channels and online selling are dominated by products that promise much. Lose weight with a miracle diet, get a perfect body with only a few minutes of daily exercise using some piece of equipment, clean your bathroom in seconds, vacuum the...
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Opinion 9 September 2016 Shining a Light on Digital Tracking in EducationShining a Light on Digital Tracking in Education
Faith Boninger
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 19 August 2016 South Africa: The Size and Shape of Private Education
By Salim Vally, University of Johannesburg Twenty two years since the first democratic elections in South Africa, the combined weight of apartheid’s legacy exacerbated by neo-liberal policies over the past two decades has meant that the promise of a quality public education system remains a chimera. While a mélange of...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 4 August 2016 Replacing Bibles with Tablets
By Graham Brown-Martin Is any education better than none?
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 3 August 2016 Don’t Believe What it Says on the Can: Another Formula to ‘Reform’ Education
By Stephen Dinham,University of Melbourne, Australia Yet another report has been released promising a plan to transform education. The latest, this time from Michael Barber and Joel Klein, two well-known players in the ‘global education reform movement’ (Sahlberg, 2014), is positioned as a white paper or as they call it,...
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Opinion 28 July 2016 Should countries in Africa use PISA for development?Should countries in Africa use PISA for development?
Oren Pizmony-Levy
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Opinion 26 July 2016 Développement du métier et qualité du travail: un partenariat Syndicat-RechercheDéveloppement du métier et qualité du travail: un partenariat Syndicat-Recherche
Catherine Remermier
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 18 July 2016 Privatisation Undermines the Right to Education in India
By Carol Anne Spreen, New York University & Sangeeta Kamat, University of Massachusettes, Amherst Private for-profit multinational corporations are making billions of dollars by charging poor families around the world to send their children to school. At the same time, governments have been shirking their obligations to provide quality public...
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Opinion 14 July 2016 MOOCs: From Tsunami to RippleMOOCs: From Tsunami to Ripple
David Robinson
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 13 July 2016 Safeguarding Education against its Commercialisation
by Kishore Singh, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education Education is a fundamental human right for every child and its provision is a core public function of the State. However, education as a public function of the State is being eroded by market-driven approaches and the rapid...
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Opinion 28 June 2016 The Importance of Class SizeThe Importance of Class Size
David Zyngier
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Opinion 22 June 2016 Collective bargaining – the real teachers’ voice.Collective bargaining – the real teachers’ voice.
Howard Stevenson
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 17 June 2016 Bridge International Academies adds fear and intimidation to its business strategy
By Angelo Gavrielatos, Project Director Global Response, Education International The flailing reputation of the Pearson-backed ‘edu-business’ has fallen to a new low after it was caught spreading false accusations to have a Canadian academic researcher jailed while studying its Ugandan operations.
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Opinion 15 June 2016 Hidden Markets in the Digital Age: Global Patterns in the Privatization of Education?Hidden Markets in the Digital Age: Global Patterns in the Privatization of Education?
Patricia Burch
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Opinion 13 June 2016 The Roles of Private Actors in the Global Partnership for EducationThe Roles of Private Actors in the Global Partnership for Education
Francine Menashy
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 10 June 2016 UN says UK aid to commercial private schools could violate children's rights
PRESS RELEASE (London, 10 June 2016) In an unprecedented statement made public on 9 June 2016, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC ) expressed concerns about the UK “funding of low-fee, private and informal schools run by for-profit business enterprises” through its development aid as...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 10 June 2016 Learning to live together
Education unions and the defence of democratic societies Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1938
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Opinion 7 June 2016 Shadow education: How does private tutoring affect the lives of teachers?Shadow education: How does private tutoring affect the lives of teachers?
Mark Bray