School Management and Public-Private Partnerships in Uganda
This paper presents the first internationally benchmarked estimates of school management quality in Africa
Abstract
Can the quality of school management explain differences in student test scores? This paper presents the first internationally benchmarked estimates of school聽management quality in Africa (based on the 鈥淲orld Management Survey鈥�). 皇冠体育app level聽and distribution of management quality is similar to that found in other low and聽middle-income countries (India and Brazil). It combine this data with individual聽student panel data, and demonstrate that differences in school management quality聽matter for student value-added - a standard deviation difference in management is聽associated with a 0.06 standard deviation difference in test scores. Finally, it聽contributes to understanding the role of the private sector in education in a lowincome聽setting. Contrary to common perception, it finds no difference between the聽quality of school management in government, private, or public-private partnership聽(PPP) schools (despite the higher level of autonomy available to them). An exception聽is an internationally-owned chain of PPP schools, which are as well managed as聽schools in the UK.
This work is paer of the is Department for International Development鈥檚 鈥楻esearch on Improving Systems of Education鈥� (RISE) Programme
Citation
Crawfurd, L. School Management and Public-Private Partnerships in Uganda. RISE Working Paper 17/013
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