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SUMMARY:Public Private Partnerships and the implications for educating you
 th from poor communities: a vew from South Asia - Dr Shailaja Fennell\, Un
 iversity of Cambridge
DTSTART:20140304T123000Z
DTEND:20140304T133000Z
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CONTACT:Bryony Horsley-Heather
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines the manner in which new private providers 
 of education operate within\, and how they withdraw from\, the educational
  marketplace in countries where mass schooling has not yet been achieved. 
 The conceptual framework is drawn from the original model of exit\, voice 
 and loyalty in educational markets created by Hirschman in 1970 that set o
 ut the mechanisms by which households evaluate the\ndifference in educatio
 nal provision provided by each provider.\n\nIt focuses on the responses of
  suppliers to exit and voice mechanisms used by households to signal their
  level of satisfaction with the range of educational provision available f
 rom state and non-state providers. The paper maps how new private provider
 s respond to households of different socio-economic status making schoolin
 g choices and examines the extent to which type and quality of provision a
 re altered in relation to these schooling choices. The data collected from
  rural and urban communities in India and Pakistan is used to show how new
  hierarchies of provision are created\, with branding exercises such as En
 glish-language learning to attract better-off households and cream skimmin
 g methods to attract academically more able students through coaching cent
 res and other supplementary educational provision. The poorer households a
 nd less academically able students face economic\, social and political hi
 erarchies that work against equal access. The implication of our findings 
 regarding the manner in which new providers are using PPP contracts to fur
 ther profits and brands in the face of diminished exit and voice mechanism
 s exercised by poorer households is a rise in the\ninequality of education
 al outcomes. Furthermore\, the nature of state-private provision interacti
 ons work to strengthen existing institutional hierarchies and obstruct the
  objective of universal access to education and improved quality of educat
 ional provision.
LOCATION:Room GS1\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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