In the past decades, the government of the Republic of Colombia was doomed to face various impediments during attempts to catalyze socio-economic progress. The attempts succeeded on various fields...Show moreIn the past decades, the government of the Republic of Colombia was doomed to face various impediments during attempts to catalyze socio-economic progress. The attempts succeeded on various fields as the drug industry and guerrilla violence. Notwithstanding, while the Republic of Colombia gains entrée to economic growth and stability, impediments to a distinct field are faced, it regards the offer of qualitative public education to the citizens of the Republic of Colombia. To explain, in the intertwined unequal dimensions of education across many nations, the public education of the Republic of Colombia is known to be falling short of funds, enrolment, quality, access, and even adequate labor conditions. Due to inadequate government spending, corruption and complex to reach rural zones in Colombia. Which resulted in the development of a clear gap between public and private education in Colombia. Therefore, the thesis will consider the conditions of public and private primary education in terms of quality, financing, and quality before the implementation of neo-liberal policies in the 1990’s (Blasco 2010, 37) and the current conditions of public and private primary education in terms of financing, enrolment and quality after the implementation of the neoliberal policies (decentralization) from 1990 to 2018.Show less
