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Should the government consider public-private partnerships in the school system, parents will have more choices and a say in making sure standards are maintained.

EDUCATION has long been one of Ideas’ (Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs) main research areas. We have published several papers on the topic, including Prof James Tooley’s ‘Could the Globalisation of Education Benefit the Poor’ and Dr M Bakri Musa’s ‘Enhancing the Role of the Private Sector in Education’.

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