Public-private partnership in education as a prerequisite for the growth of regional labor markets: analysis of foreign experience

Abstract

The aim of the article is to study the best foreign practices and models of public-private partnership in the field of education, identify opportunities for their adaptation to Ukrainian realities and develop recommendations for productive use of foreign experience in this area. It is determined that in the foreign conceptual and terminological field, in addition to the concept of «public-private partnership» uses a number of concepts (Private Finance Initiative (PFI) (UK), Service Provision Project (SPP) (Mexico), Alternative Financing and Procurement (Canada), Private Sector Participation (PSP) (World Bank). The common essential features of these concepts are singled out: cooperation of different stakeholders, complexity of the purpose, focus on the result, parity of responsibility, long-term nature of interaction, formality of relations.Criteria for distinguishing types of partnerships in foreign practice are proposed: number of participants, areas of partnership, integrated criterion «project financing - provision of educational services», integrated criterion «breadth of partnership and depth of interaction between partners», integrated criterion «degree of coordination of interaction - volume of investment».