Dr. Shalini Bhorkar is a Research Fellow at theCentre for Research into the Education of Marginalised Children and Young Adultsat St. Marys University London and she teaches in theM.A (Education International Development and Social Justice)programme.She is also an Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow at Institute of Education University College London from where she did her PhD in Education and International Development. Her research and practice broadly focus on critical debates in education quality and equity in low- and middle-income countries with an emphasis on the political economy of privatisation in school education.