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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
A Threat or Opportunity? Public-Private Partnerships in Education in Uganda
Type: Research
Author(s): Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER)
Publisher(s): Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER)
Language(s): English
Global Education Reform How Privatization and Public Investment Influence Education Outcomes
Type: Research
Author(s): Frank Adamson et al.
Publisher(s): Routledge
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
A Methodological Guide to Human Rights Research & Advocacy on the Role of Private Actors in Education
Type: Toolkits & Guides
Author(s): Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR )& Right to Education Initiative (RTE)
Publisher(s): Right to Education Initiative (RTE)
Language(s): English, French
Public-private partnerships and the right to education
Type: Research
Author(s): Kishore Singh
Publisher(s): United Nations (UN)
Language(s): English, Spanish, Arabic, French, Mandarin, Russian
Pearson and PALF: The mutating giant
Type: Research
Author(s): Carolina Junemann & Stephen J. Ball
Publisher(s): Education International (EI)
Language(s): English
Protecting the right to education against commercialisation
Type: Research
Author(s): Kishore Singh
Publisher(s): United Nations (UN)
Language(s): English, Spanish, Arabic, French, Mandarin, Russian
How to Use Human Rights Mechanisms (2/3)
Type: Toolkits & Guides
Author(s): Right to Education Initiative (RTE), Privatisation in Education Research Initiative (PERI) & Global Initiative on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR)
Publisher(s): Open Society Foundations
Language(s): English, French
Private Actors in Education & Human Rights: A Practical Methodology to Tackle the Negative Effects of Privatisation in Education on the Right to Education (1/3)
Type: Toolkits & Guides
Author(s): RTE, PERI & GI-ESCR
Publisher(s): Open Society Foundations
Language(s): English, French
Case-Studies on Parallel Reporting to Tackle Privatisation in Education (3/3)
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): RTE, PERI & GI-ESCR
Publisher(s): Open Society Foundations
Language(s): English
Privatisation of Schools - Selling Out the Right to Quality Public Education for All
Type: Toolkits & Guides
Author(s): Carol Anne Spreen et al.
Publisher(s): Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT)
Language(s): English
Whose choice?: Student experiences and outcomes in the New Orleans school marketplace. Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.
Type: Research
Author(s): Frank Adamson et al.
Publisher(s): Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
Language(s): English
Profiting from poverty, again: DfID’s support for privatising education and health
Type: Research
Author(s): Mark Curtis
Publisher(s): Global Justice Now
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
Fighting to Learn… A Legal Resource for Realising the Right to Education
Type: Toolkits & Guides
Author(s): Legal Resources Center
Publisher(s): Legal Resources Center
Language(s): English
Privatisation in Early Childhood Education (PECE)
Type: Research
Author(s): Mathias Urban & Clara Inés Rubiano
Publisher(s): Education International
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
Training Module on Privatisation and the Right to Education: Slides
Type: Other
Author(s): Right to Education Initiative (RTE)
Publisher(s): Right to Education Initiative (RTE)
Language(s)
The Privatisation and the Situation of the Right to Education in Chile
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Foro Chileno por el Derecho a la Educación
Publisher(s): Foro Chileno por el Derecho a la Educación
Language(s): English
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