Protecting education against commercialization 2015, para. 41
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- UNESCO and the International Organization of la Francophonie have expressed concern with sweeping privatization in education reducing education to a commodity: "With diversification in the field of education, the private providers - international or local - are more and more numerous. International consortiums have [become] specialized in 'selling' education. A number of local figures, including many teachers and even educational authorities, are creating schools for profit, turning to rather wealthy families with slogans extolling the quality [of the school] or are turning towards the disadvantaged public with altruistic slogans, which often hide the profit or political character of their endeavours. One can observe, above all, the emergence of a quasi-market phenomenon".
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Year
- 2015
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Education, Report to the HRC (2015), A/HRC/29/30, para. 41.
- Paragraph number
- 41
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