Public-private partnerships in education 2015, para. 50
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- Voucher systems, which support parents to send students to public or private schools, amount to public-private partnership arrangements, which promote privatization. The experience of Chile demonstrates the negative consequences of a voucher system in creating social stratification. Education service contracting in the Philippines, providing a public subsidy for each student opting to enrol in eligible private schools, is fraught with similar consequences, exacerbating inequities and social segregation. The Punjab Education Foundation in Pakistan, which sources funds from donors and financial institutions (in mixed loans and grants) and allocates vouchers to selected private schools, allows private individuals to manage government-created foundations as public-private partnerships, which is detrimental to public investment in education.
- 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 UNGA (2015), A/70/342, para. 50.
- Paragraph number
- 50
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