Private Schools and the Millennium Development Goal of Universal Primary Education: A Census and Comparative Survey in Hyderabad, India

Autor/inn/en	Tooley, James; Dixon, Pauline; Gomathi, S. V.
Titel	Private Schools and the Millennium Development Goal of Universal Primary Education: A Census and Comparative Survey in Hyderabad, India
Quelle	In: Oxford Review of Education, 33 (2007) 5, S.539-560 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-4985
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Equal Education; Elementary Education; Private Schools; School Surveys; Rural Schools; Disadvantaged Environment; Educational Assessment; Educational Indicators; Misconceptions; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Opinions; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Elementarunterricht; Private school; Privatschule; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Missverständnis; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Lehrmeinung; Indien
Abstract	Development literature suggests that private schools serving the poor are not part of the solution to meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of universal primary education. The study conducted a census and survey of schools in notified slums of Hyderabad, India, to contribute to the sparse literature on the nature and extent of private schools for the poor. Of 918 schools found, 60% were found to be private unaided (PUA), enrolling about 65% of total enrolment. On a range of indicators, including pupil-teacher ratio, teaching activity, teacher absenteeism, and classroom and school inputs such as blackboards, desks, chairs, toilets and drinking water, PUA (including unrecognised) schools were found to be superior to government schools. Objections to a role for private schools in meeting the MDG target are explored and challenged. (Contains 13 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10