Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in education involve long-term contracts between governments and private providers to deliver educational infrastructure and services. PPPs aim to uplift quality, increase enrollment ratios and educational outcomes, and reduce the government's workload. They have advantages like improved infrastructure, increased investment, faster project completion, and risk reduction. However, PPPs also face challenges like construction risks, lack of coordination, and weak policy frameworks. PPPs can help increase school access, utilize underused infrastructure, widen access to existing assets, and improve education quality and choices for low-income parents.

1. Public Private Partnership in
Education
Dr. M. Senthilkumaran
Assistant Professor
Dept of Educational Technology
TNTEU, Chennai – 600 097

2. Introduction
• Fashionable slogan for the Developed and
developing countries
– Privatization
– Globalization
• Basic and compulsory Education for the
Children from the age of 6 to 14.
• Private organisation increased.

3. PPP
• PPP can be defined in many ways
according to the need of it.
• Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in
education are long-term contractual
relationships between the government
and a private provider for all or some part
of the delivery of education infrastructure
and services.

4. PPP - Definition
• A partnership between a public sector entity
(sponsoring authority) and a private sector
entity (a legal entity in which 51% or more of
equity is with the private partner/s) for the
creation and/or management of
infrastructure for public purpose for a
specified period of time (concession period)
on commercial terms and in which the
private partner has been procured through a
transparent and open procurement system.
– Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of
Finance, Government of India, 2007

5. Aims & Objectives of the PPP
Model -Education
• To uplift the quality
• To increasing enrolment ratio
• To Increase outcomes of the education
• To maintain the coordination between
Public Private and Government sector.
• To reduce the overload of the government.

6. Advantages
• Good infrastructure
• Adequate investment into the public sector
and provide effective public resources
management;
• PPP complete every infrastructural project
very fast
• ‘Return of the Investment’ or ROI is greater
than traditional or government system.
• Reduces the risk management.

7. Advantages
• Experience in cost containment.
• It reduces government budgets and budget
deficits.
• PPP is economically very healthy and it also
allows lower taxes.
• PPP has ensured higher quality and timely
provision of public services.

8. Challenges of PPP
• Construction risk, financial risk, market
risk, and demand risk
• Acquisition of land
• Lack of proper coordination between
public-private and government
• Mismatch of the overall costing of the
project
• Corruption

9. Weaknesses of PPP
• Finance Minister Chidambaram in a PPP
conference in 2006 listed the weaknesses
of PPP
– Weakness in enabling policy and regulatory
framework
– Lack of Long-Term Instruments
– Lack of Bankable Projects
– Limited Capacity to Manage PPP in Public
Sector

10. PPP – Role in Education
• Increasing access to School
• Effective Utilization of Underutilized School
Infrastructure
• Widen access and Utilization of Existing
Assets of Education
• Lift the Quality of Education
• Increase Choice for Low-Income Parents
• Reinforce Responsibility in the Government
System

11. References
• Mazhar Shamsi Ansary & Santosh Kumar
Behera, (2018). Role of public- private
partnership (ppp) in education sector in
india, International Journal of Research in
Humanities, Arts and Literature, Vol. 6 (8),
pp.261-268.
• https://pppknowledgelab.org/sectors/ed
ucation#intro