 Over the past two years, CDE has conducted ground-breaking research into a highly significant development in South African education, namely the growth of low-fee private schools catering for poorer sectors of the population.
Private schooling for the poor is a global phenomenon which is gaining massive momentum in developing societies such as India, Pakistan, Chile, Ghana, and Colombia but its emergence in South Africa has been insufficiently recognised.
While still on a smaller scale than in other developing societies, this is an important development, with far-reaching implications. How big is this sector? How fast is it growing? Can it provide meaningful numbers of learners in poorer communities with a good education? Can it help to relieve the enormous challenges facing the public schooling system? And should the public do more to recognise this sector and encourage its growth?
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Media Coverage
- Low-Fee Private Schools in SA a growing phenomenon, CDE, 11 August 2010
- Low-fee private schools: the solution to teaching crisis? Ann Bernstein and Stefan Schirmer, Business Day, 12 August 2010
- Learning curve, Ann Bernstein and Stefan Schirmer, The Times, 24 August 2010
- Held to account, Ann Bernstein, Financial Mail, 26 August 2010
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