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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
The Network for Public Education Toolkit: School Privatization Explained
Type: Toolkits & Guides
Author(s): The Network for Public Education
Publisher(s): The Network for Public Education
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
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
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
The critical choice in American education: Privatization or public investment? In Global education reform (pp. 131–168). Routledge.
Type: Research
Author(s): Frank Adamson et al.
Publisher(s): Routledge
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
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
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