The growth of private actors in education in East Africa

Abstract

"Abidjan Principles on the human rights obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate private involvement in education." "This insightful book analyses the process of the first adoption of guiding human rights principles for education, the Abidjan Principles. It explains the development of the Abidjan Principles, including their articulation of the right to education, the state obligation to provide quality public education, and the role of private actors in education." Developing human rights guiding principles on state obligations regarding private education / Sylvain Aubry, Mireille de Koning, and Frank Adamson -- Part I: The contours of the human right to education -- Human rights guiding principles : a forward-looking retrospective / Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona -- Is there a right to public education? / Jacqueline Mowbray -- Parental rights in education under international law : nature and scope / Roman Zinigrad -- State funding of private education : the role of human rights / Sandra Fredman -- Part II: What education research reveals -- Evidence on school choice and the human right to education / Joanna Härmä -- How and why policy design matters : understanding the diverging effects of public-private partnerships in education / Antoni Verger, Mauro C. Moschetti, and Clara Fontdevila -- The growth of private actors in education in East Africa / Linda Oduor-Noah -- The evolution and forms of education privatisation within francophone countries / Marie-France Lange -- Synthesizing the research to strengthen the implementation of the Abidjan Principles / Frank Adamson, Delphine Dorsi, and Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona Annex: The Abidjan Principles process and the ten Overarching Principles.