Remarks on private gain and the public good (D. Philipsen)
“Simply put, a market system driven by private interests never has protected and never will protect public health, essential kinds of freedom and communal wellbeing.”
“Simply put, a market system driven by private interests never has protected and never will protect public health, essential kinds of freedom and communal wellbeing.”
“In this piece, the author highlights the human rights obligations of states to provide public education and regulate private involvement in education. She makes the argument that innovation can be incorporated into public education without having to commercialize it.”
Part two from the biography by Alfred Einstein…
“The ‘Coredem’ initiative encourages organisations, networks, social movements and media from different countries to make their resources and documents available online, in order to turn them useful and accessible to external readers, mutualise them through various tools (including a specific search engine), and exchange on shared concerns.”
“The author draws attention to the growing trend of private tutoring external to formal education systems (i.e. ‘shadow education’) that is impacting traditional education in myriad ways. He advises that policy-makers and education stakeholders determine the scope of this supplementary intervention and understand its impact to better shape the inevitable overlaps of these two domains.”
“The authors argue that arts education has the potential to make a substantial contribution to the lives of learners as a means to communicate, heal, construct culture and build community, irrespective of the context and the new technologies that may emerge.”