Resources
Tools for a just future
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
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
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
Private schools in India: Experiences of Dalits and Adivasis (Oxfam India Policy Brief).
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Anjela Taneja & Noopur
Publisher(s): Oxfam India
Language(s): English
Non-state actors in education 2021/2 GEM Report
Type: Research
Author(s): Global Education Monitoring Report Team
Publisher(s): United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Language(s): English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese
Tax Justice & Human Rights: The 4 Rs and the realisation of rights
Type: Research
Author(s): Liz Nelson
Publisher(s): Tax justice Network
Language(s): English, Spanish
Realizing the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education
Type: Research
Author(s): Frank Adamson et al.
Publisher(s): Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Language(s): English
Webinar series: equity, privatization, and the right to education
Type: Video
Author(s): Ashina Mtsumi et al.
Publisher(s): UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO IIEP)
Language(s): English
Popular support for public education in global perspective
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Jonas Edlund & Arvid Lindh
Publisher(s): Global Education Monitoring Report Team
Language(s): English
Domestic Financing: Tax and Education
Type: Research
Author(s): NORRAG & ActionAid
Publisher(s): NORRAG
Language(s): English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian, Mandarin
Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the right to education: concerns, challenges and opportunities
Type: Research
Author(s): Koumbou Boly Barry
Publisher(s): United Nations
Language(s): English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian , Mandarin
Private education and compliance with the Abidjan Principles: A study of Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Nigeria
Type: Research
Author(s): Elaine Unterhalter et al.
Publisher(s): ActionAid International
Language(s): English
What can be done? The Abidjan Principles as a human rights framework to evaluate PPPs in education
Type: Research
Author(s): Elaine Unterhalter et al.
Publisher(s): Routledge
Language(s): English
Fiscal austerity and the financing of education in Brazil
Type: Research
Author(s): Pedro Rossi et al.
Publisher(s): CEDES
Language(s): Portuguese
Education privatization in the United States: Increasing saturation and segregation.
Type: Research
Author(s): Frank Adamson et al.
Publisher(s): Education Policy Analysis Archives
Language(s): English
Multi-country research on private education in compliance with the right to education: A study of Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda. Johannesburg.
Type: Research
Author(s): Dr. Maria Ron Balsera
Publisher(s): ActionAid
Language(s): English
Public Good or Private Wealth? Universal health, education and other public services reduce the gap between rich and poor, and between women and men.
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Chan et al.
Publisher(s): Oxfam
Language(s): English, Arabic, Spanish, French
False Promises: How delivering education through public-private partnerships risks fueling inequality instead of achieving quality education for all
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Malouf Bous et al.
Publisher(s): Oxfam
Language(s): English
Public Good or Private Wealth? Universal health, education and other public services reduce the gap between rich and poor, and between women and men
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Chan et al.
Publisher(s): Oxfam
Language(s): English, French, Spanish, Arabic
The implementation of the right to education and Sustainable Development Goal 4 in the context of the growth of private actors in education
Type: Research
Author(s): Farida Shaheed
Publisher(s): United Nations (UN)
Language(s): English, Spanish, Arabic, French, Mandarin, Russian
Public good over private profit: A toolkit for civil society to resist the privatisation of education
Type: Toolkits & Guides
Author(s): Caroline Pearce, Jo Walker & Global Campaign for Education (GCE)
Publisher(s): Global Campaign for Education (GCE)
Language(s): English
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