Governments should celebrate the boom in private education

a measure of what matters, then the people of the developing world place a high value on brains. While private spending on education has not budged in real terms in the rich world in the past ten years, in China and India it has more than doubled. The Chinese now spend 5% of household income on education and the Indians 4%, compared with 2.5% for the Americans and 1% for the Europeans.

All over the developing world, people want more or better education than governments provide. Where cities are growing at unmanageable speed, the private sector is taking up the slack. In India the private sector now educates nearly half of all children, in Pakistan more than a third, and in both countries the state sector is shrinking. Even where the state does pretty well, as in East Asia, richer people still want better schooling for their children than the masses get.

Governments are right to worry about private education’s contribution to inequality, but they are wrong to discourage its growth. The freedom to spend your money on improving your child’s potential is a fundamental one. Whether governments formally allow it or not, people will find ways of buying private education, by tutoring children out of school or bidding up the price of property near good state schools.

Agree with the views.

Teachers should be celebrating too. As the student population migrates to non-public schools, good teachers will finally get compensated better, while those who shouldn’t teach will be encouraged to switch to more suitable careers.

some are more equal - and entitled - than others 💔 The recent pay for play - actually not playing on teams - with phony scholarships and exams fill ins only proves this out 💔

No

And what about equality?

Governments should celebrate more friendships, like mine and Morgans!

Why? Surely all this shows is the growth of an elite that now feels comfortable cementing its advantage into the next generation. Hardly the same category of benefit to a nation as universal primary education.

FFS I bet this doesnt include the SEN pupils, how much is the cost of SEN pupils in private schools in the uk

Education for profit, what could possibly go wrong.

Well their citizens are not celebrating!

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