International campaigners say British aid to private schools could violate human rights

A new ground breaking report has found that the UK’s education development funding policies that favour for-profit low-fee private schools may be in violation of the country’s obligations to the right to free quality education.

  A group of British and global organisations and its affiliates, have expressed concern that the British government, and specifically its Department for International Development (DfID), could be violating the right to education with its support for the growth of private schools across Africa and south Asia.

“Surely, taxpayers pounds intended for the educational well-being of students shouldn't be siphoned away to line the pockets of billionaires and global corporations,” said Angelo Gavrielatos, the Project Director of the Global Response to the privatisation of education.