Countries across Africa continue to face major challenges in education. In this review, we
examine 145 recent empirical studies (from 2014 onward) on how to increase access to and …

The chapter reviews trends and reasons for increased private schooling and tutoring in
South Asia, and the systemic implications and governance strategies to tackle this …

Influential reports about the “learning crisis” in the global South generally pay insufficient
attention to social inequalities in learning. In this study, we explore the association between …

In order to progress towards more equitable social welfare systems we need an improved
understanding of regulation in social sectors such as health and education. However …

This article focuses on one of the most significant and yet generally unreported
developments in schooling provision in Sub-Saharan Africa during the last two decades …

Low-fee private schools are currently relied upon by many low-income families, particularly
in urban areas under-served by government. A common response includes calls for effective …

Private schools have grown substantially, especially in lower income countries, due to
perceptions of government failures and increased availability of private schools in many …

Using data from a census of private schools in one of Lagos, Nigeria's administrative
jurisdictions, this paper explores the linkages between a heterogeneous sector of private …

This volume is the result of eighteen years of work focusing on education and the rights of
children, and sixteen years of thought and research on the phenomenon of low-fee private …

'Public'education systems are among the most obvious achievements of modern societies.
Control relates to aspects of control of schools and school systems beyond simple funding …