Mini Debate 4: Private Capital for Financing Education? - WISE 2015

How do you convince the private sector to get involved in private education? How do you align social impact and economic impact? Is there a danger that governments will become too reliant on private education and use it to justify underfunding education themselves? What are the risks on curricula, for education institutions that leverage private capital?

In this lively debate on Private Capital in the Education sector, join journalist Henrietta Cook discuss the benefits and the risks of private education with entrepreneurs Michael Staton and Gabriel Sanchez Zinny.

Moderator:
Ms. Henrietta Cook - Education Reporter, The Age

Participants:
Mr. Michael Staton - Partner, Learn Capital

"Investors that are investing in education want to see not only their internal return on investment (IRI), but they also want to see important work to be done (...) This is a viable sector to put money and get great returns."

Mr. Gabriel Sanchez Zinny - Founder and CEO, Kuepa

"We have seen in the last 15 years in latin america, increasing interest from the private sector to improve the quality of education. On average 5% of GDP goes to education but quality has not been improved - so the private sector has realised it could step in."

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