An analysis on the feasibility of supporting and funding rural education through private education in Argentina

Abstract

The quality of education in Argentina has been declining over the past decades, affecting specially rural and marginalized sectors of the population. Given the current circumstances, in which the government has increased the amount of the GDP invested in education, and there is still no concrete evidence that the quality of the education is improving, the objective of this thesis is to find alternatives to solve this problem through a private and self-sustainable initiative in which private education can cross-collaborate and fund rural or marginalized schools in Argentina. My research will focus on determining whether it is feasible to establish a sustainable model of collaboration, and determining which is the most impactful way to establish it. The aim of this thesis is to examine the effectiveness of a sustainable self-funding model, which partners elite and rural/marginalized schools. This cooperation model should help students from impoverished backgrounds to achieve higher education performance, enabling them to succeed in having access to a better quality of life, and hopefully will result in a more fair and inclusive society.