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This paper discusses the system of the public private partnership (PPP) in education in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Both the countries have adopted the system in order to have greater success in the pursuit of the goal of education for all. The secondary data used in the paper are from the World Bank report on development indicators. Pakistan has had five models of PPP in education: adoption of a school, concessions to private schools, up-gradation of school through community participation project, training of local level school bodies and tawana or nutrition programme. Available reviews of the programmes under PPP in Pakistan on the whole have expressed concerns about the sustainability of the programmes. The major programme of PPP in education in Bangladesh consisted in the peculiar system in which private sector provided school infrastructure and the state the salary of teachers. A comparative analysis of the situation of education in the countries after the introduction of PPP showed that Bangladesh has had higher achievement in education possibly as a result of the PPP experiment.
INTRODUCTION
Provision of education is a constitutional obligation of the states in both Pakistan and Bangladesh. However, the governments of these two countries have been only partially successful in providing access to education to school-age children, and even that has not been necessarily an education of quality. Like many other developing countries, these countries are facing serious challenges in improving equity and quality in its provision of education. Both the governments of Pakistan and Bangladesh have realised that the state by itself was not likely to accomplish the gigantic task of providing quality education and meeting the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and education for all (EFA). This has necessitated partnership of the government with the private sector with the objective of evolving a suitable system in order to bring the disadvantaged school-aged children into education system that called for public private partnership (PPP) in education.
There is no fixed definition of PPP and form of implementation; it differs in its scope and form of arrangements. It is a cooperative venture between the public and private sectors, built on the expertise of each partner that best meets clearly defined public needs through the appropriate allocation of resources,...