The 2021/2 Global Education Monitoring Report: Non-state Actors in Education: Who Chooses? Who Loses? (hereafter, the GEM report), published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, focuses on the role of a wide range of private, non-governmental providers and funders of education, and related support services (such as textbook publications, school lunches, transport and technology). [1] The report highlights the expansion of non-state actors—private corporations, philanthropic foundations, NGOs, civil society, and faith-based organisations—as they increasingly participate in and influence nearly all aspects of education. This comprehensive report is particularly pertinent to India, which has a substantial number of non-state actors in its education sector and about 40 percent of students in private schools. [2] Analysing the GEM report in the context of India’s education sector offers key insights amid the country’s continued efforts to provide high quality, equitable education to millions of children. This issue brief assesses one specific data point from the report pertaining to the public perception of the responsibility to provide school education, and what this implies for the state of education in India.
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