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By Clara Fontdevila, Antoni Verger & Mauro Moschetti, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona For some years now, public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been promoted as an innovative and promising policy approach, suitable to address a variety of purposes that range from improved quality to innovation, but that also include increasing access to...

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Par Sylvain Marois, Vice-président sortant de la FNEEQ, Chargé de cours à l’Université Laval An education “that could help students feel like the subjects of their own lives, rather than merely objects being acted upon by outside forces[1] .

By Maurie Mulheron, President NSW Teachers Federation Many years ago, as a young teacher in the late 1970s, I read an article about Japan and mathematics teaching in relation to what was then new technology – the overhead projector. It may have been apocryphal, but I still found the story...

By Unterhalter E., Robinson L., & Ibrahim J. The greatest challenge facing Nigeria is rebuilding high-quality education for a future with jobs and opportunities for all. In 1973, a National Pledge guaranteed every child born from the end of the civil war, compulsory free, quality primary education. It was later...

By Paul Goulter, General Secretary, NZEI New Zealand’s education unions and allies who care about quality public education have been on a bit of a high for the past few months.

by Momina Afridi, University of Toronto Increasing donor dependency and a desired “quick-fix” to the schooling dilemma of millions have pushed some low-income country governments in Africa and South Asia to collaborate with international private school chains. Bridge International Academies (BIA) is a for-profit that aims  “to be the global...

By Patricia Burch, University of Southern California “It was my mistake and I am sorry.” Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified on April 10th before a joint session of the Senate commerce and judiciary committee. He and his company have been accused of looking the other way as companies and governments...

By Susan Robertson, University of Cambridge On more than one occasion I have felt a distinct sense of unease at how much of educational activity is now framed in economic terms. Learners are ‘human capital’  - or to use a phrase that the economist, Gary Becker, coined – ‘an abilities...

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...

Por Mário Nogueira, Secretario General de FENPROF Federação Nacional dos Professores  (Portugal) Portugal es un país donde predominan las escuelas públicas. Estas escuelas brindan respuestas de calidad en contextos bien diferenciados, que se reflejan de formas muy diversas.

Por Clara Fontdevila, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona A lo largo de las dos últimas décadas, Perú ha experimentado un marcado crecimiento del peso de la oferta educativa no-estatal, así como de la importancia relativa de la matricula privada. Este fenómeno ha tenido un carácter especialmente marcado en las zonas urbanas...

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.