Investment in private education forum
Yesterday the IFC began its second International Forum on Investment in Private Higher Education. The focus was on innovations in the K-12 subsector and featured five speakers: Carl Bistany, President of Sabis; Raul Mendez, Rector at UNITEC in Mexico; Kagan Kalinyazgan, General Manager of YUCE IT Academy in Turkey; David Copeland, Chairman of Te Ketelpurangi in New Zealand; and Laura Perez, Dean at Technologica Monterrey in Mexico.
This distinguished panel spoke on a variety of issues including e-learning platforms, enrollment expansion, quality, key success factors, and public-private partnerships.
The evening switched to discussion of higher education provision with remarks by Mr. Lars Thunell, IFC Executive Vice President, who called for the private sector to take advantage of the growing demand for higher education and the inability of the public sector to meet this demand with partners.
Keynote speaker Sir John Daniel of the Commonwealth of Learning also encouraged private investors to meet this demand, in particular the demand of the poorest segments of society. He encouraged the audience (of university rectors, investors and policymakers) to offer high quality education with e-learning platforms, as can be found at the Open University in the UK.
All presentations will soon be available online. Today we will continue addressing higher education with presentations on the global market and trends, doing business in China and what works in ICT. Stay tuned!
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To invest in private education, improves it's quality and effectivity. As an example in Spain there are public schools which are complitely free and are incredible expensive for the central and local government with almost no effectivity or quality, there is also an other option to complitely private education, I'm talking about private schools (most of all religious) which are part-payed by official bodies and institutions, this option means less cost for public sector and practicaly nothing to pay by students also means effectivity, better qualificated students and more of them graduated as a result of methods, more dedication from teachers and all-time tuition and support.
As all of the readers of this blog shoud know the case of Spain is almost difficult to understand because anyway we've this results on the table the new president Mr. Rodriguez Zapatero, is to break all this systems because he thinks the progress is to break with all and separe public and private sector.
In my opinion there is only an option, to make a better education, first the base of private centres (prefered if all those are non profit and they make they studies in cooperation with private sector, as an example MBA's where cooperate banking corporations, press groups, consuting companies...)all this means base of private centres, with public support, and where a important part comes from sponsored projects (this is now a days a reality with some universities around the world).
Posted by: German Yañez Marquez | Feb 4, 2006 9:11:50 PM
private schools are good since it helps many people especially young to access education .
my self i have aschool now catering for 126 students only paying for food and teachers and am currently looking for help to support these children and this will take awy poverty and ingnorance in rural areas any form of help i can be found on my email
Posted by: edson | Jul 25, 2006 3:28:54 AM