Blanca Vera
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Back on the Streets Again
Learning Our Lesson
As protesters around the world demand their right to a good education, Blanca Vera and Amaya Querejazu investigate the learning potential offered by public-private partnerships.
The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education
The book offers an overview of international examples, studies, and guidelines on how to create successful partnerships in education. PPPs can facilitate service delivery and lead to additional financing for [...]
Developing Post-Primary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Because of the remarkable progress that countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have made toward universalizing primary school completion (a Millennium Development Goal), many young Africans are completing primary schooling and many [...]
Reviving the Global Education Compact: Four Options for Global Education Funding
In this essay, Desmond Bermingham describes the framework for a better “global education compact” between donor and recipient nations and four possible arrangements to mobilize and allocate development assistance for [...]
Hidden Privatisation in Public Education
This study was published on Issuu by Education International: “Many innovative proposals are put forward by our unions to reform and improve education. The debate should not be about whether [...]
The Privatisation of Education In Chile
This study was published on Issuu by Education International: We are delighted to make this document available for use by any organisation or person interested in education, and particularly in [...]
Reforming Education Finance in Transition Countries
This book reviews the experience with one specific though widely introduced approach to funding general education, namely per capita financing (PCF), in six countries in the Europe and Central Asia [...]
Education Policies and Education System: empowerment or dependency
This study was published on Issuu by Peter Ragno. Open publication – Free publishing – More education
Chilean Students Taking to the Street
A massive student protest in Chile against the education policies of the government: a very tough time for Sebastián Piñera’s government. Photo taken by Dave_B_, published on Flickr (CC BY [...]
