ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at a form of public private partnership (PPP) where public funding through a government’s aid budget is used to support the growth of a private market in schooling with particularly concerning outcomes with regard to quality and equalities. It provides an overview history of international development assistance to education from 1990, highlighting some of the ways in which public revenues came to be connected with private financing for education. The chapter outlines the many forms education PPPs have taken in developing countries locating aid assisted PPPs in a wider picture. Some contradictory processes emerge in the precise evasions associated with aid, inequality, while the context of weak state-level structures in the data from this study indicate two kinds of response to PPPs. There are defences of the public education system, its support for poor children from teachers working in that system, parents whose children attend those schools, and trade unions.
