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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
‘Build Us More Schools!’ - The Quest for Quality Free Education in Mabatini and Ngei Wards of Mathare, Nairobi
Type: Research
Author(s): Roselyne Onyango & Timothy Fish Hodgson
Publisher(s): Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR)
Language(s): English
Transparency of Private Commercial Education Providers: A case study of Bridge International Academies
Type: Research
Author(s): Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR)
Publisher(s): Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR)
Language(s): English
How Kenyan initiative helped to regain education as a public good over for-profit education in low-fee private schools.
Type: Research
Author(s): Christel Adick
Publisher(s): Journal of International Educational Research and Development Education
Language(s): English
What do we really know about Bridge International Academies?
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Curtis Riep
Publisher(s): Education International (EI)
Language(s): English
Low Cost Private Schools: School choice for the poor at the expense of quality?
Type: Research
Author(s): The East African centre for Human Rights (EACHRights)
Publisher(s): The East African centre for Human Rights (EACHRights)
Language(s): English
Whose children go to Bridge International Academies?
Type: Research
Author(s): ActionAid
Publisher(s): ActionAid
Language(s): English
Guide to: Human rights guiding principles on state obligations regarding private schools
Type: Toolkits & Guides
Author(s): RTE, OSF & GI-ESCR
Publisher(s): RTE, OSF & GI-ESCR
Language(s): English
From Free to Fee - Are For-Profit, Fee-Charging, Private Schools the solution for the world’s poor?
Type: Research
Author(s): William C. Smith et al.
Publisher(s): RESULTS Educational Fund
Language(s): English
What do the new data on Bridge International Academies tell us about their impact on human rights? A five-point analysis.
Type: Research
Author(s): ISER, EachRights & GI-ESCR
Publisher(s): ISER, EachRights & GI-ESCR
Language(s): English
Education International and Kenya National Union of Teachers release new report, ‘Bridge vs. Reality: a study of Bridge International Academies’ for-profit schooling in Kenya’
Type: Research
Author(s): Education International (EI) & Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT)
Publisher(s): EI & KNUT
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
Private Profit, Public Loss: why the push for low-fee private schools is throwing quality education off track
Type: Research
Author(s): Global Campaign Education (GCE)
Publisher(s): Global Campaign Education (GCE)
Language(s): English
Low-Fee Private Schools and the right to education
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Jo Walker & Shaharazad Abuel-Ealeh
Publisher(s): Global Campaign for Education (GCE)
Language(s): English
Pearson and PALF: The mutating giant
Type: Research
Author(s): Carolina Junemann & Stephen J. Ball
Publisher(s): Education International (EI)
Language(s): English
Omega Schools Franchise in Ghana: A case of “low-fee” private education for the poor or for-profiteering?
Type: Research
Author(s): Curtis Riep
Publisher(s): Educational International (EI)
Language(s): English
Privatisation of Education: Global Trends of Human Rights Impact
Type: Research
Author(s): Right to Education Initiative (RTE)
Publisher(s): Right to Education Initiative (RTE)
Language(s): English
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