Issues and challenges to the right to education in the digital age 2016, para. 91
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Private sector enterprises are emerging key players in digitization. The commercial interest of providers, which enables them to enter the higher education market using a massive open online course approach, can be the reason for offering such courses. Governments, institutions and private providers may misuse massive open online courses and other distance education technologies to promote privatization, reduce public funding and increase managerial control over academic staff.
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Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the right to education
Document type
Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
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Economic Rights
Education
Governance & Rule of Law
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Year
2016
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Other
Reference
SR Education, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/32/37, para. 91.