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Privatized Education in the Developing World

Whats in a Name?

http://www.unesco.org/iiep/eng/newsletter/2001/jane01.pdf

What is in a name? We know what private means; it is not public or in the open space. When we privatize education it is no longer out there for all to see or to benefit from. Take Cameroon for example. When it comes to privatized education there it makes up more than a quater of primary and secondary schools. Although there are public schools these private schools so create a stratification of classes. While children of better off families are able to pay for these private schools. Although Cameroon has taken an economic hit and along with that their private schools are no longer getting the income to sustain their schools. This just seems to be that the second-class public schools that are sub-par are going to take another hit. While privatized education can be a good thing it seems to be a mistake. There seems to be more monetary focus on the privatized schools while even these schools ar enot able to support themselves.  With this example it just goes to prove that the inequalities of privatized education create larger gaps between the rich and the poor. With the poor growing larger in number and the rich growing richer and smaller in number. The schools in Cameroon will not be able to sustain all of the students that are trying to go into their school system. What will be the cause of this? Will all of Cameroon’s schools become privatized and just susbsized by the government?

February 25, 2008 - Posted by amberlgregg | Uncategorized | | 1 Comment

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  1. [...] amberlgregg wrote an interesting post today on Whats in a Name?Here’s a quick excerptWhen we privatize education it is no longer out there for all to see or to benefit from. Take Cameroon for example. When it comes to privatized education there it makes up more than a quater of primary and secondary schools. … [...]

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