An endless debate rages in the education sector over whether school education ought to be run solely by the state or allowed to move into private hands. Though a host of individuals, experts and organisations strongly favour a state-run education system, the fact is that state schools all over the world, including India, have witnessed a steady outflow of children to the private school system.
“Parents are voting with their feet. The private education sector exists for a reason and we have to stop pretending that it doesn’t,” says Aashti Zaidi Hai, director of the UK-based Global Schools Forum (GSF),