We know more students are going to private schools, even though fees can be steep and families might need outside help to afford them.
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Schools ask parents to contribute to basic supplies such as stationery and first aid supplies. The price tag can be four figures, per child, per year.
It was not pregnancy itself, but resource constraints, that kept Malawian girls from school during and after the pandemic.
About 37% of Australian students now go to a non-government school.
As Australian families prepare for term 1, many will receive letters from their public schools asking them to pay fees.
Australian households contribute way more to the costs of children’s schooling than the OECD average. This is due to the numbers of students attending private schools and paying high fees.
The introduction of free education should follow a gradual process, starting with the lowest levels.
In a new report, education authors Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor propose a framework to increase parental choice and improve equity in the school system.
The tax exemptions enjoyed by the UK’s charitable private schools are estimated to equate to 6% of England’s annual state school budget
Software that advertises premium features for a fee is ill-suited to school environments, where children should experience universal access.
The no-fee school policy in South Africa, while well-intentioned, demands a serious review.
Parents don’t only pay for private schools. Many public schools ask parents to make ‘voluntary contributions’, and many more are upping their fundraising game.
After years of neoliberal policies eroding the tax base to pay for high schools, mandatory online learning curriculum from classrooms could be the next international money-maker.
Some parents in Québec are being reimbursed after a ruling that they were overcharged school fees. If taxes cover public schools, should parents have to pay at all?
In some Nigerian universities, wealthy female students engage in trasnactional sex for pleasure, while those that needed financial support did it for the money.
Interventions for vulnerable girls in Kenya aim to empower and keep them safe.
Tanya Plibersek, shadow minister for education, told reporters recently that Australia is slightly below average when it comes to international funding for our schools. Is that right?
Australia’s school funding model provides high levels of public funding to private schools, while also allowing them to charge fees.
The lack of service integration and the paucity of welfare services make poor people’s task of caring for their familes much harder. A small monthly cash transfer can’t solve all their challenges.
It’s unusual for children in Nigeria’s rural areas to have any access to private schooling, even if it’s of the low-cost variety. They must rely instead on poorly resourced government schools.
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Associate Professor in Education, Deakin University
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Population Council
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