Low-Fee Private Schools: Case Studies from Ghana

Women School Leaders: Entrepreneurs in Low Fee Private Schools in Three West African Nations

This study explores the opportunities and challenges of women who own low-fee private schools in three West African nations. With the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 and the Sustainable Development Goals in 2016, it has become obvious to policymakers that school leadership needs to be a policy priority around the world. Increased school autonomy and a greater f...

Household Choice of Schools in Rural Ghana: Exploring the Contribution and Limits of Low- Fee Private Schools to Education for All Luke Adorbila Akaguri Submitted to the University of Sussex for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Low-Skilled Immigration and the Expansion of Private Schools

Low-Skilled Immigration and the Expansion of Private Schools This paper provides a political-economic model to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country’s education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of parents who are more likely to send their children to publicly or privately funded schools. Four m...

Corporal Punishment in Private Schools: The Case of Kathmandu, Nepal

The purpose of this study was to elaborate the situation of corporal punishment which is being practiced in Nepalese schools going against new policies that promote the non-violence teaching. It was based on original qualitative study of one private school of Kathmandu (the capital city of Nepal) having more than 2000 students and 100 teachers. Results from FGD, observation of the classroom pra...

Output specific efficiencies: The case of UK private secondary schools

Based on regularly published data we quantitatively assess the efficiency of UK secondary, private schools in providing quantity vs. quality of graduates on a per output basis. In economic terms the primary question is whether indeed an increase in the quantity of graduates with the observed inputs would be associated with a deterioration of average quality of graduates. The estimation framewor...