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The Challenges of Public-Private Partnerships in Realising the Right to Education Online Workshop

admin - 24th June 2015
Socio-Economic Rights and Labour Rights
Children attend a UNICEF supported Community Based School (CBS) in Qala-e- Haji Yahya village in Anjil district of Herat Province. Afghanistan. Total of 395 children attend this community based non-formal primary school in three classes ranging from grade 1 to grade 3. There are five teachers between three classes. UNICEF supports this school with textbooks, teachers training, teachers training and technical assistance. In recent years in Afghanistan, chronic insecurity and renewed violence, especially in rural areas, continue to impede recovery from decades of war, and limit progress for all the country‰Ûªs 25 million people ‰ÛÒ particularly its children and women. The nation‰Ûªs social indicators rank at or near the bottom among developing countries: average life expectancy is below 45 years; 40 to 60 percent of Afghan children are stunted or chronically malnourished.

The Oxford Human Rights Hub and the Open Society Foundation are excited to be hosting a participative and interactive online workshop exploring the challenges of public and private partnerships in realising the right to education.

Public private partnerships are an increasing phenomenon in the field of education. The growing influence of a market model of private education, particularly in providing low-fee schools, has challenged the traditional understanding of education as a public good. This brings with it the risk that the State will abdicate its public responsibilities, and education will be viewed as a market commodity. This raises the question of how to retain the fundamental nature of the right to education as a societal or public good, rather than a private good.

The aim of this online consultation is to develop a human rights understanding in relation to several crucial issues raised by public-private partnerships. The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Mr Kishore Singh, will be participating in the online workshop and use the workshop discussions as a resource for his annual report to be submitted to the UN General Assembly in September 2015.

The online workshop will investigate three key questions:

  • What is the role of law in structuring a PPP and in conceptualising the purpose of education?
  • How can the state and private providers be held accountable for both quality in education and against corruption?
  • What enforceability measures are needed to hold actors in public-private partnerships accountable?

This workshop will be conducted online. There will be a ‘live base’ at the Oxford Human Rights Hub in Oxford, with allocated experts from around the globe and an audience participating ‘virtually’ from around the globe. On the day of the workshop the experts and a live virtual audience sign into allocated software hosting the workshop. The expert speakers will prepare pre-recorded videos which will play in succession. Participants will be able to pose comments and ask questions of the experts during the question and answer session.

To participate:

  • Sign up here before noon (BST) on Wednesday July 29
  • Instructions on how to participate as a virtual audience member will be posted here in due course.

The webinar will be recorded and archived on the OxHRH website, so those who are unable to participate on July 29 can still access the webinar.

To learn more about the current debates and challenges on the right to education, see OxHRH’s first webinar by Professor Sandra Fredman on the right to education.

For those in Oxford, please do participate as a live audience member by coming down to Harold Lee Room at Pembroke College!

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