This article discusses the globalised phenomenon of public-private partnerships, which involve the private and public sector collaborating to provide infrastructure and service delivery to public institutions. Within the education sector, the most commonly known public-private partnerships exist in the United States as charter schools and the United Kingdom as academies. Discussing this phenomenon in the South African context, this article draws on the Collaboration Schools Pilot Project as an example for understanding how the involvement of private partnerships within public schooling is being conceptualised by the Western Cape Education Department. Framed within the debate of public-private partnerships for the public good, the article provides a critical discussion on how these partnerships are enacted as a decentralisation of state involvement in the provision of public schooling by government. The article concludes by noting that the Collaboration Schools Pilot Project, which involves significant changes in policy regarding how schools are governed and managed, requires more rigorous and critical dialogue by all stakeholders as the model unfolds in schools in the Western Cape.

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南非教育中的公私合作伙伴关系：风险业务还是善治？

本文讨论了公私合作伙伴关系的全球化现象，其中涉及私营部门和公共部门合作以向公共机构提供基础设施和服务。在教育部门中，最常见的公私合营关系是在美国以特许学校的形式存在，在英国以学院的形式存在。本文在南非的背景下讨论了这种现象，本文以“合作学校试点项目”为例，以了解西开普省教育部如何将私人合作伙伴关系纳入公立学校的概念。在针对公共利益的公私伙伴关系辩论中，本文就如何将这些伙伴关系作为政府参与政府提供公立学校的权力下放进行了批判性讨论。文章的结尾指出，“合作学校试点项目”涉及到有关学校管理和管理方式的重大政策变更，随着该模式在西开普省的展开，要求所有利益相关者进行更严格和批判性的对话。