Some reflections on the risks that public-private partnerships pose for the realisation of the right to education
Maria Ron Balsera - @RTEInitiative
Thursday, 23 June, 2016
Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is an umbrella term that refers to the arrangement between a government and one or more private actors to provide a service, in this case, education. This arrangement... Read more
A Framework to Assess the Role of Non-State Actors in Education against Human Rights
Delphine Dorsi - @RTEproject
Thursday, 23 June, 2016
Non-State actors’ involvement in education has increased in many parts of the world over the past three decades, and private education is being promoted and explored by some education stakeholders as... Read more
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Monitoring the Right to Education in the Context of the 2030 Education Agenda
Erica Murphy - @RTEProject
Friday, 29 April, 2016
On 11 April, 2016 the Right to Education Project launched the Right to Education Monitoring Guide (‘Guide’) and Right to Education Indicators Selection Tool (‘Tool’) at the UCL Institute of Education... Read more
Tax, Privatisation & Education: Influencing Education Financing Policy to Transform Children’s Lives (2)
Maria Ron-Balsera - @RTEProject
Wednesday, 17 February, 2016
The ‘Tax, Privatisation and the Right to Education: Influencing education financing policy’ is a multi-country project that seeks to ensure that all children have improved access to public education... Read more
Rights-Based Responses to Non-State Education Provision: A Tentative Typology and some Critical Reflections
David Archer - @DavidArcherAA
Thursday, 21 January, 2016
The role of the private sector in education has become a very hot issue internationally and it has tended to lead to generalised and polarised statements rather than nuanced debates. Attempts to... Read more
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Low-Fee Private Schools and U.S. Charter Schools: Two Faces of Non-Traditional Private Education
Kevin Murray and Aja Watkins - @PHRGE
Monday, 2 November, 2015
The global trend toward the privatisation of public education over the past two decades is now widely recognised. While a confluence of many factors—including disinvestment in public education and... Read more
How Can Regulations of Private Actors Ensure the Right to Education in the Post-2015 Setting?
Erica Murphy and Meggan Le Quintrec - @RTEProject
Friday, 30 October, 2015
Confronting the growth of private actors in education does not only mean identifying problems but also reflecting on solutions that allow for private actors to play a positive role.The Right to... Read more
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Civil Society Organisations Gather in London to Examine the Impact of the Increasing Presence of Private Actors in Education
Erica Murphy and Meggan Le Quintrec - @RTEProject
Thursday, 29 October, 2015
From 15th to 21st October, civil society organisations from around the world convened in London for a series of workshops and public events to examine the impact of the growing involvement of private... Read more
Tax, Privatisation & Education: Influencing Education Financing Policy to Transform Children’s Lives (1)
Maria Ron-Balsera - @RTEProject
Monday, 20 July, 2015
Right to Education Project and ActionAid are delighted to announce a small but ambitious project to deliver high-quality, human rights-based research on the impact of ‘low-cost’ private schooling on... Read more
Low-Fee Private Schools in Peru
María Balarin
Friday, 15 May, 2015
Low-fee private schools are a growing phenomenon in many low and middle-income countries. Their emergence usually takes place in the context of a default privatisation processes which, though often... Read more

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