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The shadow education system: private tutoring and its implications for planners

Private tutoring is an important phenomenon that has arisen in a wide variety of countries and can have significant educational, social, and economic ramifications. However, due to the fact that it is a service provided outside the planning and...

Bray, Mark

Paris, UNESCO, 1999
Corruption and public good provisions: The politics and de facto privatisation of the Thai education sector

In order to tease out the narrative detail behind such overarching issues as corruption, state capacity, public goods, the education sector and political economy in the Thai case, this thesis questions the impact of corrupt transactions on collective...

Tan, Michelle

Leeds, University of Leeds, 2005
Education in a hidden marketplace: monitoring of private tutoring: overview and country reports

The Education Support Program (ESP) has published Education in a Hidden Marketplace: Monitoring of Private Tutoring, the result of the Monitoring Private Tutoring Project, initiated by ESP in close cooperation with the Network of Education Policy...

Silova, Iveta, Budiene, Virginija, Bray, Mark, Zabulionis, Algirdas

New York, OSI, 2006
Strengthening integrity and fighting corruption in education: Serbia

This first Integrity of Education Systems (INTES) country assessment was undertaken at the request of the Ministry of Education and Science of Serbia, following presentations of the assessment methodology to the Steering Group of the OECD Anti...

Milovanovitch, Mihaylo, Bloem, Simone, Checchi, Francesco, Devine, Vera, Kalnins, Valts, McGuinness, Séamus, Poisson, Muriel, Roberts-Schweitzer, Eluned, Whitman, Ian

Paris, OECD, 2012
Private tutoring

17.11.2012 USA

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Private supplementary tutoring in pre-university education is defined as tutoring in academic subjects provided by tutors for financial gain in addition to the provision of mainstream schooling. A researcher from Lehigh University raises concerns about private tutoring and provides examples of situations where it is not used to complement mainstream schooling but instead replaces it.
Reduce the education deficit in the Middle east

27.05.2016 Egypt

Press

Anne-Marie Slaughter and Lauren Bohn - l'Orient Le Jour

The state of Egypt’s public schools is an essential indicator of the ways in which the Egyptian revolution has not reached its citizens. In fact, private tutoring has now become Egypt’s de facto education system. A number of teachers have admitted, unofficially, that they teach the strict minimum in class so as to be able to recuperate these same students in private tutoring sessions. According to some estimates, Egyptian families spend over 1 billion dollars in private classes to compensate for the poor level of education: a cost which comes to almost a quarter of the family income.
Corruption-risk assessment of the Georgian higher education sector

News

12.10.2018 Following a corruption-risk assessment, IIEP-UNESCO publishes a set of recommendations to improve the financing, management, and admissions of Georgia's higher education sector.