Protecting education against commercialization 2015, para. 36

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A recent in-depth study on privatization has shown that education as a sector is increasingly being opened up to profit-making and trade, and to agenda-setting by private, commercial interests that conceptualize the learner as a consumer and education as a consumer good. The reconfiguration of public services within neoliberal globalization has placed education squarely in the headlamps of the private sector and international trade agreements such as the General Agreement on Trade in Services and the Trade in Services Agreement. Low-fee private schools in developing countries are a glaring example of the commercialization of education, characterized as "edu-business". A potentially very large proportion of these schools are unregistered.
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)
  • Economic Rights
  • Education
Person(s) affected
  • N.A.
Year
2015
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Other
Reference
SR Education, Report to the HRC (2015), A/HRC/29/30, para. 36.
Paragraph number
36