Public funding to private providers of compulsory education: crossed looks between Brazil and Portugal in the context of globalisations

ABSTRACT

This paper focused on public funding to private providers of compulsory education in the context of globalisations. It analyses the differences and the common points between Brazil and Portugal (from 2014 to 2017) regarding the type of private providers in education, the mechanics and the reasons linked to the public funding to compulsory education private providers. Data collection was based on content analysis of a corpus of documents and interviews. The article shows that in the case of Brazil, the philanthropists are the main promoters of public funding to private providers of compulsory education while, in Portugal the main promoters are the large educational private providers. It also identifies that the public funding to private providers of compulsory basic education is increasing in Brazil and decreasing in Portugal due to governments political and ideological options.

KEYWORDS:

• Compulsory education
• privatisation
• educational reform
• funding
• Brazil-Portugal

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 For more information, please see Bastos (2017).

2 From 2017 onwards the compulsory education is from age 4–17 years old.

3 https://fundacao-lemann.gupy.io/ Access January 2018 [authors translation]

4 https://itausocial.org.br/pt/producao-editorial/modelo-de-escola-charter-a-experiencia-de-pernambuco. Access on January 2018.

5 http://www.institutounibanco.org.br/sobre/. Access on January 2018.

6 http://www.inded.org.br/informativo/inded-instituto-destra-de-educacao

7 The Group members are the teachers and the schools owners. In the time of the interview (July 2016) the schools functioning the central part of Portugal.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo: [Grant Number 2015/21107-3].