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Resources on the issue of private sector education

Many writers have contributed to the debate that has formed CER's advocacy platform. In CER's Resources you can read articles and papers by others which offer a strong and diverse background to the ideas that CER advocates. More resources are found in our articles and elsewhere on this website.
The E.G. West Centre at the University of Newcastle
Free degrees to fly (The Economist)
Education Without the State (James Tooley, Institute for Economic Affairs)
History Shows the Value of a Private Education Marketplace (Brandon S. Lynaugh, The Buckeye Institute)
Government Schooling: The Bureaucratization of the Mind (Thomas E. Lehman, The Freeman)
Getting Government Out of Higher Education (Jon Westling Provost, The Heritage Foundation)
Less is Good, Nothing is Better: How the State can Improve British Education (Sean Gabb, Free Life Commentary)
The Private University and African Economic Development (Yaw Nyarko, New York University)
The case for corporate universities (Dennis Hayes, spiked online)
Privatize or perish: the case for blowing up our ivory towers (Andrew Coyne, Toronto Globe and Mail)
Toward a Historical Perspective of Libertarian and Anarchist Education (Kai Malloy, Harbinger)
A Case-Study of Higher Education in the Private Sector: An Interview with Henrik Fyrst Kristensen, Vice-Chancellor of Knightsbridge University, Denmark (John Kersey, Libertarian Alliance)
Public and private in South Korea's Education Reform Vocabulary: An Evolving Statist Culture of Education Policy (Ki Su Kim, International Education Journal)
Costa Rica: Public Continuity, Private Gains (Daniel C. Levy, International Higher Education no. 43)
Oxford heads back call to go private (Julie Henry, Chris Hastings, Daily Telegraph)
How we could have our own Ivy League (Terence Kealey, Daily Telegraph)
Moves towards private universities "unstoppable" (Polly Curtis, The Guardian)
Surrey steps further toward privatisation (Rodrigo Davies, The Guardian)
Multinationals to apply for university status (Donald MacLeod, The Guardian)
Germany's Ivy League (Charles P. Wallace, TIME)
Private Universities - Better than the Rest? (Sabine Steghaus-Kovac, Science)
Some thoughts in favour of private universities (John Kersey, Libertarian Alliance)
Exporting higher education - a question of quality (UNESCO)
Step by Step Socialism (Vedran Vuk, LewRockwell.com)
Less of the state, please: private sector universities in Eastern Europe (The Economist)
Academic strife: the American university in the slough of despond (Norman Levitt, spiked online)

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David Ricardo School of Business

Programs at the bachelor's, M.B.A. and doctoral levels entirely by nonresident distance learning using flexible non-traditional methods of study and assessment. Visit the School here.

Amos Bronson Alcott Center for Educational Research

The CER has as its main area of research interest independent postsecondary education in the University sector, and disseminates articles and reports online on private universities and non-traditional tertiary education. Visit the CER here.

Arnold Harris Mathew Center for the Study of the Independent Sacramental Movement

CSISM is the first university center anywhere in the world to be devoted to the study of the independent sacramental movement originating within Catholicism. Visit CSISM here.

Romantic Discoveries Recordings

RDR operates as a research center in association with EAU. Since its inception, RDR has researched unknown piano music of the nineteenth-century and brought it to the public by means of a series of première CD recordings that now encompasses over one hundred works. Visit RDR at its own website here.

Libertarian Library Online Project

LLOP aims to gather together online resources exploring different aspects of libertarian philosophy in a convenient single-source location. Visit LLOP here.

Society for Humanistic Potential

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Henselt Library - rare scores of piano music from the nineteenth-century

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