Partnerships for Management in Education: Evidence from Punjab & Sindh

Public Private Partnerships in education offer a set of powerful tools for involving the non-state sector for triggering improvements in state schools. In many ways the presence of the adopters pushes the school sideways out of the hierarchy of bureaucratized control, to create spaces where experimentation and innovation can take place.

A year-long mixed- methods study was undertaken to assess the contribution of the PfM mechanism towards addressing access, quality and governance challenges. We ask if PfMs can improve outcomes for state sector schools. Primary and secondary data sources were used to track and compare indicators for access, quality and governance over time between comparable sets of adopted and un- adopted schools. Findings suggest considerable improvements in access, quality and governance indicators in PfM schools also referred to as adopted schools.

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Authors

Dr. Rabea Malik IDEAS

Dr. Faisal Bari IDEAS

Keywords

• Equality
• Policy Reform
• Universal Access

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Malik, R., Bari, F., Muzaffar, I., Mashhood, T., Mansoor, M., Ali, A. (2015). Partnerships for Management in Education: Evidence from Punjab & Sindh. Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS).

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