How a UK-based org is supporting low-budget private schools in India

GSF started taking members 10 months ago and now has 35 members, primarily in Africa, Latin America and South Asia, with the largest cohort of eight members from India

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),