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Educational Access and Public-Private Partnership: Possibilities and Pitfalls
Shalini Advani
In considering the needs of educational improvement and expansion to make quality education accessible for all levels, this study examines the contribution of the private sector in the realm of equity. For a variety of reasons, the private sector is increasingly entering the sphere of free, public education in India and we need to theorize its role to reconsider established assumptions on the provision of educational access. Is it possible to conceive of a notion of the ‘private’ that is distinct from the ‘market’ - even if it is funded by the market? Or more appropriately, can we consider the operation of ‘private capital’ that has a mediated relationship ...
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