ABSTRACT
Expenditures for all levels of education continue to increase in virtually all countries with comparable data. In about three-quarters of these countries funding from private sources is increasing more rapidly than from public sources (OECD, 2008, p. 243). “Privately provided” education continues to grow, both absolutely and as a proportion of all formal education. This is occurring at both compulsory and tertiary levels, and in most corners of the world (Quddus & Rashid, 2000). It encompasses many different kinds of organizations, with a widening range of governance, financing, and ownership arrangements (e.g., for profit versus nonprofit and privately funded versus publicly funded), that vary by level of education, region of a country, and across countries.
