The Relative Efficiency of Private and Public Institutes in Developing Countries

The Relative Efficiency of Private and Public Institutes in Developing Countries Aside from revenue mobilization, one of the arguments for allowing the private sector to assume a larger role in the provision of education is that it would increase efficiency, as administrators become more responsive to the needs of students and their parents. But what is the evidence? Based on case studies that comparative private and public education in Columbia, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Tanzania, and Thailand, private sector students generally outperform public sector students on standardized maths and language tests. The Role of Private Sector Islamabad School Of Excellence: The Educator of the Youth According to a Chinese saying: “A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step”. This first step should be strong and firm. Perhaps, the time has come when we should take that first, bold, pragmatic and futuristic step to further improve the standard of education and to lift Islamabad School Of Excellence to new heights. If we want to emerge as a successful nation and don’t want to prostrate at the feet of developed nations for economic assistance, we will have to educate our youth in such a way that they become a helping hand in running the wheel of economy and not a burden on the (feeble) shoulders of the (already unstable) state. No doubt, there is a great gap between the utopian dreams and the stark realities of life, but it ca be paved through with vision and action. It won’t be a smooth sailing, but a purposeful action is always better than inaction, as John F. Kennedy once said: “There are risks and costs to a programme of action but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction”. In order to transform our youth into useful human resource, our first step should be to train our teachers because only better teachers can make better individuals and a nation’s strength lies in individuals – men and women.