What is your opinion? Why would you opt for one and not the other? Which are the benefits and limitations of the two types?
The quality of education depends on personnel and technical support. This has no direct connection with the form of ownership of the educational organization.
Thank you very much Andrey Skorobogatov on your response. I agree with you but to some people the ownership is more important than the quality of education itself. They opt for one and discredit the other.
As per my opinion the government owned and aided ones, and the privately owned schools. The government schools are indeed doing a commendable job of making education available to a greater number of people and are normally doing it for free or for fees that are really within the reach of everyone. They are of great help for people in urban areas for whom it is impossible to get their children to the more expensive private and government aided schools and in the rural areas, perhaps, they are the only ways in which children can get educated and dream of a better future.
In my country, private schools display better academic performance so that parents can take their children.
Govt schools are not much academic performance driven. They are not pressurized by student exam rates.
Dear Sajda Taha Mahmood, thank you, you have given an excellent overview of the two types along with their benefits and limitations. I must say a very objective analysis. How do you feel about the stereotypes on one vs. the other? To what extent do the stories told by the elders have an inpact on the choice of youth whether to select private or state school/university .
A combination of both -state owned/government and private owned- is the best. When education is more in the interest of the general public the government, the state, must step up. Education for the government is not to make profit, it is more a common good, like clean water, clean air, good health service, transportation, safety. There are common goods that must be provided by government, see also In Praise of Bureaucracy (2014) by Paul du Gay.
Private owned education is very often because of business opportunity and or pursuing an ideology (belief system or orientation), a particular interest of certain groups or individuals.
In democratic political systems there is room for state owned education as well as private owned.
Dear Rudi Darson, a very inspiring formulation and distinction between the two types of education. You have grassped the essence. Thank you very much.
When a high education institution is state-owned, there will be guarantees that it will be supported, the students will pay no or little fees, the graduates will have good opportunities for employment, the institution will be helped in adding necessary specializations, and the staff can get a reasonable retirement arrangement.
I saw cases of successful private H.E. institutions but they are little in number in our region & their administrations managed to get financial aid from "few" generous rich persons or charity groups.
It depends on several conditions. The main thing is the family follow up to better educate kids than the school by itself.
Dear Nizar Matar, thank you on your contribution to this topic. The state owned institutions certanly give the financial security to students and staff. I hope that there will be more successful private institutions in your region, hence they will make the state owned to improve their curriculum and quality of study. Only with presence of both can we improve our education.
Dear Diary R. Sulaiman, Mila Ilieva and Mohammed Kemal thank you for your comments and support on this very important topic.
Privet vs. public education issue has three key aspects to consider:
1. Privet education can make money only under condition that it's better than a public one. So that it's just a matter of time and investment.
2. Education has two key components - professional and humanitarian/liberal. Privet education can and will compete with a public education on this front as well, if there is a wide societal demand in that.
3. The very fact of existence of a successful privet education forces governments to increase funding into a public education. Otherwise, taxpayers would ask for reasons of the public educational system functioning altogether, if money being spent without a visible success.
Dear Len Leonid Mizrah, thank you on a very detailed and indepth analysis of the private education vs public. These factors can certanly lead to future academic discussions.
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Dear Ravee Art Phoewhawm and Jasim Hassen thank you on your comments.
Education cannot be owned; stewardship is the key.
Private property is about assets, not about education, which should remain open for the person in need of it.
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/education.html
Dear Stephen I, Ternyik thank you very much for your comment and the link you forwarded on the novelties and a pioneering approach to education.
One need to see the difference between education and upbringing. This difference can be huge because education is only education. However, with a good upbringing, "private" and "state" education can be replaced by self-education. In my understanding, self-education is the most reliable way to get an education, since all knowledge is on the Internet in the form of books, articles, documents and videos. Only technology is needed to extract this knowledge and its understanding. Thus, I would formulate the formula "self-education vs. private/state education".
Dear Gennady Fedulov, thank you very much on your contribution. In fact the aim of this discussion is to exchange thoughts on the topic of education and through the comments of our esteemed colleagues, we can see that the conversation is very fruitful with many interesting ideas.
Private :
Money- mongers , have their own curriculum so competency is questionable unless some external body audits them .
Public:
Funded but not sure if they have a level of transparency , quality of education is no any better when compared to private ...
Dear Aparna Sathya Murthy, thank you on your comment, you stated some of the limitations as to both types of institutions and you also equated the quality of knowledge received.
Education is a basic human necessity. Either students are home-schooled or they attend public schools provided by the Govt. In view of the necessity of education as a necessity, private interests have a role as much as Govt. and that is where private schools have appeared. Some the best universities are privately funded which shows that quality comes with money.
Dear Chung Tin Fah thank you on your comment. I am glad that you supported the thesis that both private and state are a necessity and you didnt involve a negative sterotype in regards to the privately owned universities, on the contrary you consider some of the best universities to be in private hands. I often come across an attitude of my colleagues who discredit private universities on a daily basis and usually without any arguments. Private institutions present a great threat to them and they need to keep pace with high education standards.
Thank you very much صلاح حسون جبار i am glad that you find the topic interesting.
I believe in self-education. An "educated person" doesn't mean a certificate-holder person.
Ownership of academic institution has no bearing with quality/productivity. Rather, the quality of manpower and infrastructural facilities determine the quality and academic productivity.
Dear Towhidul Islam and Nyakno Jimmy George thank you very much on your comments.
It is not easy to say that public education is better than private, or vice versa, perceptions of the individual may be different. As for the state view, there is a big difference when the state allows private education at the level of schools and colleges with very strict controls, the results will be positive as is known for policy It is better to encourage the private sector and work in parallel with the public section .Therefore, the benefits will be great. The circumstances of the state may be unable to build new schools and universities, and it cannot employ new teachers and professors. The main special education problem is how to adjust the mechanism at work for both sectors without Intersection at work between them.
Dear Dr. Nazar Alqahwachi, thank you on your comment. You have depicted the situation in regards to private vs. state education very well. Mechanisms of control are essential in order to acquire the highest standard of education. I am sure that solution to the question you raised would be in creating bodies( with members from both sectors), such bodies and commissions exist, but i am questioning their productivity. Independent members from various spheres of education could have a role of balance and cheques. Their main role would be to avoid any bias and insist on enhancing education from both sides.
I agree with you, my answer is not perfect, but it is actually a lot. Thank you very much for the addition, comment, amendment and correction. We are always looking for the truth and nothing else.
Dear Lazar Vukadinovic , my contribution follows.
Private education, especially higher education, in Serbia is, with some exceptions, on a low quality scale. Corruption in every sense, especially the corrupt behavior of certain members of the accreditation body, has caused even state colleges and universities to lose out on quality. Not to mention the massive number of college degrees and PhDs of controversial quality, plagiarism ...
To conclude, in principle, public education instills more confidence. It will take a long, long time before private education is fully realized. Now it's a chase for money, the opening of a large number of centers, while the enrollment quotas for state colleges and colleges are prescribed by the founder - Serbian government!
Education is duty of the state as each person has right to be well educated in the society. In India, higher education is not state duty (responsibility) and lesser funds are available to higher education. Private parties are allowed after liberalization policy of the government. Private colleges and universities are less productive in terms of quality (however more productive in terms of quantity).
Private parties wish to make money at large and apex bodies are also less sensitive to quality assurance.
Dear Ljubomir Jacic, thank you very much on your overview of the situation of education in the Republic of Serbia. You coudnt have depicted the reality of education any better. There are many obstacles to reforms of the education system in our country, but when distinguished individuals like yourself recognize the problems, i have confidence that the sutuation will improve in the future. If not in our generation then in generations to come.Once again thank you for your contribution.
Education is a main driver of a country's economic success. And it is a prerequisite for participation as a citizen. Therefore it should be arranged such that everybody has access to elementary education. It may pay-off, if higher education is also not confined to those who can afford to pay private providers for it. After all, I think it's a public duty to give people access to education according to their abilities. I doubt that this can be achieved completely without state owned institutions. Private providers may offer alternative programs.
Public education is still best. Private is better. Both are serving good. However, public schools are more sustained in terms of faculty salaries and more remunerated than those schools which are considered establishing status. Only very few private schools which are serious in school management.
Dear Thomas Neusius Rony Villaflores thank you for your comments.
Dear Lazar Vukadinovic , this is fine resource which threat many components which are important in comparison of private vs state education in USA, but those criterias are universal.
https://www.thoughtco.com/comparison-of-private-and-public-schools-2773903
https://www.thoughtco.com/major-differences-between-public-and-private-2773898
For me both of them, but quality is not development by private or public. There are good profesional in all of then.
But public schools teach to all kind of people, and I prefer that one. All integrations problems, economical situation are working in public school
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The owner does not matter, the results matters. You can check which school produces students with high success rates. In our country the schools with the best students are yearly published in the newspaper.
The economic interpretation is distinct in this area, the process of entering the private sector as a competitor of the public sector in the field of education is important, because it works to employ graduates, creates competition in the quality of providing scientific services to the student, contributes to the introduction of modern technologies in education, contributes to the increase of educational institutions for all The educational stages, redistribution of income by transferring part of the amounts from the rich to the poor, and activates human capital by improving its quality.
But there are conditions: the private education sector must abides by the official rules and regulations, and the directives of the Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research.
Education is essential to survival in contemporary economic systems, since it provides students with the necessary prerequisite knowledge and skills for societal occupations. In some cases, the provision of these prerequisites can make the difference between a life of financial sustainability and a life of poverty. I would thus argue that education should be a human right. While a state would have a duty to provide these prerequisites to its citizens, private organizations may not necessarily need to be structured toward such ends.
Dear Beatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist Nazar Alqahwachi Justin Patrick thank you on your contribution on the topic.
Dear s. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist ,
even if the private owned schools had the better graduates, that doesn't mean they better performing - so not only results matter. Typically, private schools have more degrees of freedom in choosing their students. And often, they focus on the excellent ones. Besides, they profit from better funding, which enables them to provide better tuition.
But there is also need for education for the mainstream students. In particular, if they cannot afford high education fees, I'm not convinced they'll find private providers to a sufficient degree.
Therefore, I doubt that the "owner does not matter". It might well matter a lot whether education is provided as a social good or considered a completely private affair.
Lazar Vukadinovic , Thomas Neusius , s. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist
The more you pay, the more quality of learning you get.
Education = marketing in the new era..
The school that gets better result only mirrors that their students come from a richer surrounding with less problems and parents who are better off I read yesterday.
The main difference between a private and public school is how they are funded. State schools in addition to being funded by tuition payments are partially government funded and typically offer reduced tuition to in-state students. ... This means that tuition can be higher for a private school than a public one.
Private schools aren't better at educating kids than public schools. ... Despite evidence showing otherwise, it remains conventional wisdom in many parts of the education world that private schools do a better job of educating students, with superior standardized test scores and outcomes.
This article is very true!!!
Around Belgrade, they are jokingly referred to as Megatrendusas — a take on the Serbian word “namigusa,” meaning flirty and a dig at the alleged frivolity of some of the more fashion-conscious female students attending the private Megatrend University, which will celebrate its 25th anniversary next year.
Controversies have swirled for years around Megatrend, which offers degrees in everything from media to economics and has campuses across Serbia.
When Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the late Libyan leader, was granted an honorary doctorate in 2007, Srbijanka Turajlic — the then deputy minister for higher education — was quoted as saying, “This is not something this university should be proud of.”
But considering “the quality of the university,” she added, “it is not surprising that it awarded a doctorate to a dictator.”...
Mica Jovanovic, the school’s founder and rector, blames jealousy for a lot of the negative attention and says that many officials in Serbia’s current government have degrees from Megatrend...
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/world/europe/a-testing-time-for-private-schools-in-eastern-europe.html
Both private and state owned schools have their advantages and limitations. However, the quality of resources and resource personnel are big standouts.
You can make the best out of school in a conducive learning environment, having audio and visual aids and building ones intellect, skills and abilities rather than shoving a bunch of notes down their heads to commit to memory.
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