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- Title
Public–Private Partnerships: Implications for Primary Schooling in Pakistan.
- Authors
Farah, Iffat; Rizvi, Sadaf
- Abstract
Since the early 1990s, the government of Pakistan has promoted a policy of public–private partnerships to increase access and improve the quality of education in Pakistan. This article describes the evolution of the policy and discusses a variety of partnership arrangements aimed to establish and govern primary schools. It suggests that, while partnerships have positive outcomes and may be a viable option for resourceful communities, they are located in a hierarchical structure and lack equal distribution of power and trust between partners. Partnerships are often temporary and established for the purpose of a transition to privatization. These problems make them an unlikely strategy for a sustained increase in the chances of access to good-quality schooling for the poor and disadvantaged.
- Subjects
PAKISTAN; PRIMARY education; PARTNERSHIPS in education; COMMUNITY involvement; BUSINESS partnerships; EDUCATIONAL cooperation; EARLY childhood education
- Publication
Social Policy & Administration, 2007, Vol 41, Issue 4, p339
- ISSN
0144-5596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9515.2007.00557.x