Transforming the Private Education Sector: What Needs to be Done?

2017 ◽  
pp. 159-169
Keyword(s):  
Private Education ◽  
Education Sector

Exploring Funding in Higher Education Sector in Oman

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-20
Author(s):  
Mouza Said Al Kalbani ◽  
Ahmad Bintouq
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Private Education ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Tuition Fees ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
The Us ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Uk

Funding of higher education institutions is a major growing expense for the Oman government (13–14% of the total spending in 2016) and is at par with that of other governments (e.g., 11% in the UK and 15.5% in the US). However, there has been little investigation into the funding of quality higher education in Oman. The present research project aims to explore the sources of funding at Oman universities after it opened the private education sector in 1996. The research methodology includes conducting interviews with leaders in higher education to explore different types of funding (e.g., gifts, tuition fees, government support). This will enhance our understanding, as well as that of decision-makers, regarding universities' funding sources and of the higher education landscape.

scholarly journals Exploring the Challenges Faced by Working Mothers and the Perceived Factors to Retain them in the Private Education Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Hasani De Ravindranath ◽  
Jugindar Singh Kartar Singh ◽  
Thilageswary Arumugam ◽  
Janitha Kularajasingam
Keyword(s):  
Private Education ◽  
Working Mothers ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Flexible Work ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Basic Qualitative Study ◽  
Career Growth ◽  
Care Support

The purpose of this exploratory study was to explore the challenges faced by working mothers in the education sector and the perceived policies and strategies to retain them in their current jobs. This basic qualitative study used in-depth semi-structured interviews to collect information from five working mothers with at least one child.  Thematic analysis was done to analyse the data manually. The key challenges highlighted include work-life conflict, stereotyping, exhaustion, changing work schedule and career growth opportunities.  The working mothers also stated that the key perceived policies and strategies to retain them include child-care support, working from home and flexible work arrangements. Generally, they stated that motherhood was their key priority, and they prioritised family overwork. The study provided an understanding to organisations on the challenges faced by working mothers and what policies organisations should focus on to retain them. This study was the first of its kind, and it provided in-depth experience and views of working mothers in the education sector. This paper makes contributions to work-life integration and career theory.

scholarly journals Does Market Competition Encourage Strategic Action in the Private Education Sector?

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Aurini ◽  
Linda Quirke
Keyword(s):  
Private Education ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Strategic Action

This article examines whether market forces encourage private education entrepreneurs to strategically outsmart the competition in ways that improve the quality of their programs or service delivery. Based on interviews with eighty private education entrepreneurs, we find that market competition does not inform how they understand their role in the wider education sector or how they made sense of their actions. Instead entrepreneurs tie their program, hiring and customer service decisions to an ideological commitment to students and by defining themselves as educators. Drawing on the sense-making literature, we suggest that this worldview guides their actions more so than the principle of supply and demand. This paper opens the black box of private education organizations, and offers a nuanced addition to mounting research that challenges the connection between market competition and school performance.

Contemporary Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Challenges and Innovation in Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-105
Author(s):  
Sheikh Mohammed Rafiul Huque ◽  
Tasnima Aziza ◽  
Tahira Farzana
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Private Education ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
Innovation In Education ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

COVID-19 has changed the way the whole world used to operate, and education is no exception. Worldwide, a massive transition has been observed in the education sector. During the pandemic situation, the world has experienced the mode of education shifting to a digital platform. This chapter investigates the impact of COVID-19 on entrepreneurs, their challenges, and adoption strategies that have created a pathway for innovation in the private education sector in Bangladesh. A qualitative investigation on 57 observations along with 18 detailed case studies was included in this study. The study sheds focus on primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of education in Bangladesh. The outcome of the study emphasized the strategies taken by the entrepreneurs that focus on the bright and dark sides of the educational sector. Private institutions face technological, financial, and operational challenges during the pandemic time. Urgent initiatives need to be taken by the government or other agencies for addressing these issues for the sustainability of this sector.

scholarly journals A vision for private education in Morocco

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (4Bis) ◽  
Author(s):  
ABDERRAHMANE LAHLOU
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Education ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Not Given ◽  
The Public ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Time To Learn

After three decades of commendable efforts on the part of the private education sector in Morocco, both school, professional and higher, to achieve the quantitative and qualitative objectives that have been set for it, it is time to learn lessons a harvest below expectations. It is clear that today, the sector does not reach the workforce of the 20% expected, that as a whole, with rare exceptions, it has not given itself the educational and academic means to ensure quality to the standards required by the company, that it does not enjoy good notoriety, or even legitimacy in the eyes of families, who still prefer studying abroad and in the public sector with regulated access, than the authorities of guardianship do not maintain relations of professional consideration and political encouragement towards him.

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