Public Private Partnership In Education

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There are many potential benefits to PPPs in education, the most significant of which is that they can help to widen access to education. The public sector experiences considerable resource constraints in financing and providing education services to all. PPPs can play a complementary role to the State by providing additional finance to the education sector through filling the gaps left by the State. PPPs can also increase access by making use of private schools to absorb the excess demand for schooling in particular geographical areas. This directly increases access for those attending private schools and reduces class sizes for students in overburdened public schools.
University Grant Commission (UGC) is the chief functionary that enforces …show more content…

Thus, Public Private Partnership imply a sort of collaboration to pursue common goals, while leveraging joint resources and capitalizing on the respective competence and strength of the public and private partners.
Following are the aspects of procurement which distinguishes Public Private Partnership from privatization.
(i) Delivery of service : In case of privatization the private sector is entirely responsible for the delivery of the service as well as its funding. While such responsibilities are fully retained by the government in PPP project.
(ii) Ownership : Under privatization, the ownership rights are sold to the private sector along with associated benefits and cost. Whereas the legal ownership of asset is retained by the public sector.
(iii) Decision making : The nature and scope of the services under privatization is determined by the private provider, while in case of PPP, both party contractually determined the same defining the terms and condition of the …show more content…

Public Private Partnership in Higher Education is expected to provide a better framework for fostering these factors than the affiliation system with all its constraining conditions hanging as a dead weight on the state sponsored higher education system.
Further the concept of Public Private Partnership leads to the decentralized management culture. The delegation of responsibility with accountability for academic as well as associated management functions is essential for the success of PPP.
Thus it can be concluded that the use of Public Private Partnership structures in education projects in India is set to continue and expand in the coming years. There is a stream of project in the pipeline. PPP can be an important part of the overall strategy to achieve quality at scale, but is not a panacea. The PPP strategy must fit into and be in line with the overall higher education strategy and priorities. Public Private Partnership is useful to the extent that it helps meet the larger goals. Also Public Private Partnership should never limit or restrict government itself from offering educational services or running education institutions because it has a PPP partner in that

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