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Promoting the idea of creating equal access to
quality education, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation
in cooperation with the India-based Centre for Civil
Society will organise a discussion forum, titled
"Freedom
in Education" in New Delhi.
This year the Economic Freedom Network Asia Forum
will be held at AUSSOCHAM House, New Delhi, India
on 4 September 2007.
Among the issues that will be discussed at the
forum is whether governments should always be the
provider of mainstream education or they should
instead spend educational budgets through private
initiatives and design a regulatory framework that
will ensure quality and national standardisation
of all educational institutions.
The idea is that regulatory frameworks should facilitate
and encourage private investment in the educational
sector.
The discussion will also look at how allowing the
private sector a greater presence in the educational
sector will widen ordinary people’s choice
and access to quality education—by filling
a gap in the supply and by competing with public
schools that will then be forced to improve their
quality to win students.
Speakers include: Professor Mao Yushi from China,
Attorney Florencio Abad, former secretary of the
Department of Education of the Philippines, Dr.
Uthai Dulyakasem, former advisor to the Minister
of Education, Thailand, and Dr R. Govinda from India.
These experts will share their experiences and research
results on how giving the poor freedom, choice and
a say on national’s educational systems will
lead to wider and easier access to quality education.
This forum is part of the “Economic Freedom
Network Asia” effort since 1998 to promote
economic freedom and market economies in the region.
The network consists of think tanks and policy advisors
to governments in more than 20 Asian countries,
including India and China.
For further information, please contact:
Ms. Sarinthorn Sachavirawong (jyoti@fnst.org)
Regional Manager for Economic Freedom and Human
Rights
Friedrich Naumann Foundation
Tel: +662 3650570
Fax: +662 7114944
or visit our website www.fnfasia.org/efn for regular
updates.
For the press release, please click here.
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