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The Private and the Public in School Education
The poor quality of the state-run school education system has led to demands that the State should withdraw from schooling, and that the government should only fund private initiatives or let the private sector take over schooling with public-private partnership initiatives. However, proper regulation of private schools and quality-driven reforms in public schools is a better alternative to PPP.
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| The Private and the Public | to review the state of our education sys |
| tems, and explore and keep alive the pos | |
| in School Education | sibility of public debate. That debate is be |
| coming increasingly polarised and seems | |
| difficult, given the ideological and cultur | |
| al preoccupations and prejudices that | |
| Venu Narayan | d ivide the protagonists. I proceed in the |
The poor quality of the state-run school education system has led to demands that the State should withdraw from schooling, and that the government should only fund private initiatives or let the private sector take over schooling with public-private partnership initiatives. However, proper regulation of private schools and quality-driven reforms in public schools is a better alternative to PPP.
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