GLOBAL – IFC plans private education development strategy
May 1st, 2008
By Keith Nuthall
THE ABILITY of private tertiary education to give emerging economies a shot in the arm will be debated this week at a major conference in Washington DC, staged by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank.
Senior academics - such as Sir Graeme Davies, vice chancellor and president of Britain's University of London - will be participating at the event called 'Investing in the Future: Innovation in Private Education'.
Encouraging private investors to sink capital into developing and emerging market countries is the raison ...
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