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India's Right To Education Act: Household Experiences And Private School Responses, Prachi Srivastava, Claire Noronha
India's Right To Education Act: Household Experiences And Private School Responses, Prachi Srivastava, Claire Noronha
Education Publications
This study aimed to shed light on the early phase of implementation of India’s landmark Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (RTE Act), effective as of April 2010, with special attention on the role of the private sector (i.e. private unaided schools). This working paper reports on the household- and school-level results of a larger project conducted in a Delhi slum. Data in this working paper were collected between June 2011 and April 2012 by a survey of 290 households in the selected slum area, semi-structured interviews with a sub-sample of 40 households, semi-structured interviews with …
Private Sector Research Study: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Prachi Srivastava, Claire Noronha, Shailaja Fennell
Private Sector Research Study: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Prachi Srivastava, Claire Noronha, Shailaja Fennell
Education Publications
This research study was commissioned by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) in India to provide a broad overview of key issues associated with how the role of the private sector in education has evolved over the last ten years of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), the Government of India’s flagship programme for universal elementary education. The terms of reference set the focus of this study on broadly covering public-private partnerships (PPPs) and the emergence of low-fee private schooling. Additionally, the end of the first decade of SSA dovetails with the implementation of the RTE Act, bringing important changes to …
Neither Voice Nor Loyalty: School Choice And The Low-Fee Private Sector In India, Prachi Srivastava
Neither Voice Nor Loyalty: School Choice And The Low-Fee Private Sector In India, Prachi Srivastava
Education Publications
The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, it presents a model examining the school choice processes of disadvantaged households accessing the LFP sector in a study on Lucknow District, Uttar Pradesh. The model presents households in the study as engaging in ‘active choice’. Active choice is seen as the deliberated action of households in making concerted choices about their children’s schooling through a complex process. The process involved assessing competing school sectors (mainly the state and LFP), and analyzing particular household circumstances and local school markets through a systemic set of values, beliefs, and “mental models” (North, 1990) about …