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
Pandemic Privatisation in Higher Education: Edtech & University Reform
Type: Research
Author(s): Ben Williamson & Anna Hogan
Publisher(s): Education International (EI)
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
Identifying tax heavens and offshore finance centres
Type: Research
Author(s): Tax Justice Network
Publisher(s): Tax Justice Network
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
Direitos Humanos e Justiça Fiscal: e a educação?
Type: Video
Author(s): Brazilian Campaign for the Right to Education
Publisher(s): Brazilian Campaign for the Right to Education
Language(s): Portugese
Domestic Financing: Tax and Education
Type: Research
Author(s): NORRAG & ActionAid
Publisher(s): NORRAG
Language(s): English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian, Mandarin
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
Tax Justice and Education Are Powerful Tools to Reduce Inequalities
Type: Other
Author(s): Caroline Othim
Publisher(s): Global Alliance for Tax Justice
Language(s): English
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
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
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
The Power of Education to Fight Inequality: How increasing educational equality and quality is crucial to fighting economic and gender inequality
Type: Briefing & Policy Papers
Author(s): Jo Walker et al.
Publisher(s): Oxfam
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
Pearson 2025 - Transforming teaching and privatising education data
Type: Research
Author(s): Sam Sellar& Anna Hogan
Publisher(s): Education International (EI)
Language(s): English
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
In Whose Interest? The UK’s role in privatising education around the world
Type: Research
Author(s): Initial research carried out by Mark Curtis
Publisher(s): Global Justice Now & National Education Union
Language(s): English
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