26th June 2003, 11:00 AM
Though post secondary education is not quite the same thing as elementry and high school educations I think that you can look at the example of Canadian universities and colledges to show how publicly funded institutions can be by far supperior to private institutions.
Currently the vast majority of universities (in canada university refers to institutions that have four year degree granting programs where a colledge refers to what I think you would call a community colledge where they have 2 year diploma granting programs) are publicly funded and a majority of colledges and tech schools.
The reason for this is that the private institutions could not keep up with standards set by the publicly funded institutions when they were introduced, and eventually many of the private for profit schools closed because they were inferior to the well managed publicly funded isntitutions and many of them ended up being transfered to government control.
None of the private schools that remain open are well known on an international or national level because the quality of education they deliver doesn't even compare to that of the publicly funded institutions, but publicly funded schools like McGill University, University of Waterloo, University of Toronto and Queens University are well known internationally for the quality of schooling they deliver and not only schools that many Canadians want to attend but also recive thousands of applications a year from American students and western Europeans.
So if properly funded and managed public institutions can almost completly replace private instituions and can give a good quality of education
Currently the vast majority of universities (in canada university refers to institutions that have four year degree granting programs where a colledge refers to what I think you would call a community colledge where they have 2 year diploma granting programs) are publicly funded and a majority of colledges and tech schools.
The reason for this is that the private institutions could not keep up with standards set by the publicly funded institutions when they were introduced, and eventually many of the private for profit schools closed because they were inferior to the well managed publicly funded isntitutions and many of them ended up being transfered to government control.
None of the private schools that remain open are well known on an international or national level because the quality of education they deliver doesn't even compare to that of the publicly funded institutions, but publicly funded schools like McGill University, University of Waterloo, University of Toronto and Queens University are well known internationally for the quality of schooling they deliver and not only schools that many Canadians want to attend but also recive thousands of applications a year from American students and western Europeans.
So if properly funded and managed public institutions can almost completly replace private instituions and can give a good quality of education