Hidden Assets: South Africa’s low-fee private schools
Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 13 Aug, 2010From the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) comes a publication looking at low-fee private schools in South Africa, based on research of the last two years.
From the media release
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Private schooling for the poor is a global phenomenon which is gaining
massive momentum in developing societies such as India, Pakistan, Chile, Ghana,
and Colombia but its emergence in South Africa has been insufficiently
recognised.
While still on a smaller scale than in other developing societies, this is
an important development, with far-reaching implications. How big is this
sector? How fast is it growing? Can it provide meaningful numbers of learners in
poorer communities with a good education? Can it help to relieve the enormous
challenges facing the public schooling system? And should the public do more to
recognise this sector and encourage its growth?
Here's the link to the media release with links to the Executive Summary and the full publication.