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Will Parents Pay?

Sep 02, 2010
You don’t have to be an educator to recognize that any intervention to improve the quality of education is going to take time; an investment in teacher training, for example, is not going to have immediate results. For that reason, improving
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Crowd-sourcing Social Innovation

Aug 23, 2010
A few weeks ago I met with an entrepreneur who started an Affordable Private School (APS) in Hyderabad, India. He had beautifully painted murals decorating his space, with images and English words – like giant flash cards demonstrating that,
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The Challenge of Finding Entrepreneurs

Aug 16, 2010
It should be blindingly obvious – a market with millions of children, thousands of schools and the possibility of having tremendous impact. You’ve read elsewhere about how incredibly important external support beyond the school’s
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Developing a School Chain Brand for Affordable Private Schools

Aug 09, 2010
I think that one of the most stimulating developments in market- based/entrepreneurial solutions in affordable private education is the emergence of chains of low cost private schools. After I wrote the prize winning essay ‘Educating Amaretch
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Innovations in Education Delivery – E-Reader with Cutting Edge Content for Affordable Private Schools

Aug 02, 2010
The affordable private schools demonstrate an innovation in business model. The sector is now witnessing innovations in service delivery, where edu-preneurs are actively seeking and utilizing existing mechanisms and new ones to cater to the needs o
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Developing Ratings to Address Specific Needs of Stakeholders

Jul 20, 2010
Education is recognized as a basic right by the United Nations. In accordance with this, India has recently passed the Right to Education (RTE) Bill, which mandates that every child between the ages of 6 and 14 has the right to free and compulsory
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The Market for English Communication Programs

Jul 12, 2010
At a public policy seminar recently, we sent out students for a field trip to a village nearby. The idea was to know the state of the local health facilities. Most people chose the private counterpart because of the high responsiveness. The apathy
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Frugal Innovation in Education

Jul 05, 2010
Emerging markets are home to innovation in a variety of sectors. They are also home to innovative names for innovation such as frugal innovation and reverse innovation. Frugal innovation is innovation to meet the specific needs of the population at
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Getting APS on the Map

Jun 30, 2010
How do we get the APS sector on the map, on the national consciousness, on the national policy agenda? Sometimes we just need a change of government. 
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Affordable Private Schools: A Market in Themselves

Jun 23, 2010
In Pakistan, for every 4 primary schools, there is one middle school, for every 10 primary schools, there is only one secondary school. Affordable Private Schools are a response to fill this gap.
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