whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Funding departments instead of people cheats everyone
(Analysis/Analysis)

... a significantly lower quality. The state would achieve far more if it simply offered appropriate education vouchers to parents and allowed them to cash them in at their favourite private schools. Go...

2. Higher food prices mean downgrading that Turkey to a Chicken
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s. If subsidies are required then they should be short-term and targeted directly at the poor through food vouchers. These, too, have their consequences. The subsidised "free" electricity...

3. Demonstration Enterprise Development Consultant A
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

...they provide.  They are intending to scale down.  Funding Requirements Despite being dependent on vouchers, they have diversified significantly since their original approach and now offer se...

4. Government rewards the worst schools for poor performance
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s pay for education.  Schools should not get subsidies.  Learners should.  Issue education ((vouchers)) directly to learners, rate every school in terms of their performance, issue thes...

5. School vouchers offer the poorest an opportunity to learn at better schools
(Analysis/Analysis)

Universal provision of formative education is considered a basic right in our constitution.  The standard approach, followed by virtually every government in the world, is that they should build

6. Vouchers and Individual Choice
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ng rewarded and bad schools no way of being shut down. A recent innovation has been to present parents with vouchers that allow them to pay their children’s annual fee at school directly. That w...