Resources
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PEHRC’s resource hub brings together key evidence on the challenges faced by our public education systems globally, including the privatisation in and of education, for policymakers, researchers and education advocates.
Key Resource on the Right to Education
The Abidjan Principles
The Abidjan Principles are a tool for governments, courts and education advocates to defend education as a human right.
Developed through extensive consultations across five continents, the Principles clarify States' obligations to provide public education and to regulate private actors.
Resource Library
Derechos Digitales: riesgos y avances hacia la garantía del Derecho Humano a la Educación en América Latina y el Caribe
Type: Research
Author(s): Campaña latinoamericana por el Derecho a la educación
Publisher(s): RedClade
Language(s): Spanish
Tecnologías digitales libres en los sistemas públicos educativos: una transformación posible
Type: Research
Author(s): Campaña latinoamericana por el Derecho a la educación
Publisher(s): RedClade
Language(s): Spanish
Report on the Implementation of the Liberia Education Advancement Program (LEAP)
Type: Research
Author(s): Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) and Coalition for Transparency and Accountability in Education (COTAE)
Publisher(s): Coalition for Transparency and Accountability in Education (COTAE)
Language(s): English
An ed-tech tragedy? Educational technologies and school closures in the time of COVID-19
Type: Research
Author(s): Mark West
Publisher(s): United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Language(s): English
Digital Technologies and Human Rights: a Legal Framework
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
Publisher(s): International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
Language(s): English
The impact of the digitalisation of education on the right to education.
Type: Research
Author(s): Koumbou Boly Barry
Publisher(s): United Nations
Language(s): English, Arabic, Russian , French, Mandarin, Spanish
Pandemic Privatisation in Higher Education: Edtech & University Reform
Type: Research
Author(s): Ben Williamson & Anna Hogan
Publisher(s): Education International (EI)
Language(s): English
Re-building resilient education systems: three lessons on the privatisation of education emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic
Type: Opinion Piece
Author(s): Members of the Privatisation in Education and Human Rights Consortium (PEHRC)
Publisher(s): United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Language(s): English, French, Spanish
Commercialisation and privatisation in/of education in the context of Covid-19
Type: Research
Author(s): Ben Williamson & Anna Hogan
Publisher(s): Education International (EI)
Language(s): English
Pearson 2025 - Transforming teaching and privatising education data
Type: Research
Author(s): Sam Sellar& Anna Hogan
Publisher(s): Education International (EI)
Language(s): English
Schooling the poor profitably: the innovations and deprivations of Bridge International Academies in Uganda
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Curtis Riep & Mark Machacek
Publisher(s): Education International (EI)
Language(s): English
Hidden Markets in the Digital Age
Type: Research
Author(s): Patricia Burch
Publisher(s): Education International (EI)
Language(s): English
Issues and challenges to the right to education in the digital age
Type: Research
Author(s): Kishore Singh
Publisher(s): United Nations
Language(s): English, Spanish, French, Mandarin, Russian, Arabic
Pearson and PALF: The mutating giant
Type: Research
Author(s): Carolina Junemann & Stephen J. Ball
Publisher(s): Education International (EI)
Language(s): English
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