Private education in a poor country: The case of urban Bolivia

Psacharopoulos, George; Arieira, Carlos; Mattson, Robert E.

doi:10.1016/s0272-7757(97)00007-1

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“…Srivastava (2007) notes that, although the state of Uttar Pradesh is educationally backward, it has a private school enrolment rate of 57.6 percent-the second highest in the country. The rise of private schooling has also been witnessed in Bolivia where nearly one fifth of all students at the primary and secondary levels are enrolled in private schools (Psacharopoulos, Arieira, & Mattson, 1997). Pakistan has undergone similar trends: in 2010/11, 25 percent of all schoolgoing children were enrolled in private schools (Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, 2011).…”

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Determinants of School Choice: Evidence from Rural Punjab, Pakistan

Ahmed

Sheikh

2014

LJE

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The objective of this study is to understand why parents in rural areas of Punjab, Pakistan, choose to send their children to private schools when free public schools are available. The study utilizes the Privatization in Education Research Initiative (PERI) school choice dataset compiled by the Lahore School of Economics in collaboration with the Punjab Bureau of Statistics. These data provide rich information on parents’ perception of their child’s school relative to alternative schools he or she could have attended. The findings suggest that parents’ perceptions play an important role in school choice. In particular, their perceptions of school quality and employment opportunities emerge as key determinants of private school choice. Additionally, expenditure on and access to private schooling relative to public schooling as well as the socioeconomic status of the household have a significant impact on parents’ probability of choosing a private school for their child.

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Determinants of School Choice: Evidence from Rural Punjab, Pakistan

Ahmed

Sheikh

2014

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“…This further confirmed the findings of Tsang (2013) that university education had the capacity to yield economic benefits both to individuals and the society. In Psacharopoulos (1985), such educational benefits to university graduate workers yielded rates of returns to education higher than physical capital investment. The low level of knowledge creation revealed the difficulties university output had in adding developmental values through scientific knowledge (Babalola, 2011).…”

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University Output Soft Skills at Workplace in Blue Economy Strategy for Sustainable Development in Cross River State, Nigeria

Ekanem

Etor

Ukpong

2020

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This study investigated university output soft skills and blue economy strategy as mechanisms for sustainable development in Cross River State of Nigeria. The study was a descriptive survey research design. The population included all university graduate workers in sea ports in the state. A purposive sampling techniques was used to select 250 respondents from the port locations. The instrument designated ‘Soft Skills In Blue Economy Strategy Questionnaire (SSIBESQ)’ was designed to collect data for the study. The instrument was validated and had a reliability co-efficient of 0.872. The data collected were analyzed using frequency counts and percentage score. The study revealed that university output soft skills were beneficiary to the graduate workers economically and encouraged multitasking in human and material resources for sustainable development of Cross River State, Nigeria. Blue economy strategy, through a dynamic environmental sustainable principles, assisted the university output at workplace. This included to boost new employment, innovation and growth in marine production and other port industries, thereby improving the state economic stand. Some of the recommendations made were: universities should give more attention to soft skills development, government should support policies on university output soft skills and blue economy strategy as sine-qua-non for utilization of business opportunities and economic development in the state.

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“…Bolivian children are instilled with a strong sense of family responsibility, and often enter the labor market at an early age (Punch, 2004). In Bolivia, child labor reduces educational attainment by two years (Psacharopoulos et al, 1997). In 2014, the Bolivian government, disregarding international conventions, passed a law reducing the legal working age to 10 years of age if self-employed and 12 years of age for contract work (Coon, 2016).…”

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Effective participatory science education in a diverse Latin American population

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Particular challenges exist for science education in the developing world, where limited resources require curricula designed to balance state-of-the-art knowledge with practical and political considerations in region-specific contexts. Project-based biology teaching is especially difficult to execute due to high infrastructural costs and limited teacher training. Here, we report the results of implementing short, challenging, and low-cost biology courses to high school and college students in Bolivia, designed and taught in collaboration between scientists from developed nations and local science instructors. We find our approach to be effective at transmitting advanced topics in disease modeling, microscopy, genome engineering, neuroscience, microbiology, and regenerative biology. We find that student learning through this approach was not significantly affected by their background, education level, socioeconomic status, or initial interest in the course. Moreover, participants reported a heightened interest in pursuing scientific careers after course completion. These results demonstrate efficacy of participatory learning in a developing nation, and suggest that similar techniques could drive scientific engagement in other developing economies.

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Private education in a poor country: The case of urban Bolivia

Cited by 17 publications

References 4 publications

Determinants of School Choice: Evidence from Rural Punjab, Pakistan

Determinants of School Choice: Evidence from Rural Punjab, Pakistan

University Output Soft Skills at Workplace in Blue Economy Strategy for Sustainable Development in Cross River State, Nigeria

Effective participatory science education in a diverse Latin American population

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