privatisation

Question 1

privatisation IN education

Answer 1

involves schools and colleges operating in similar ways to private independent businesses, including managing their own affairs competing with other schools for pupils and using target setting and league tables to measure progress

Question 2

privitisation OF education

Answer 2

refers to the opening up of state education to private businesses who design, manage or redeliver education e.g. private managed chains of academy schools private companies taking re4sponsablity for the exam system

Question 3

The cola-isation of schools

Answer 3

The private sector is also penetrating education indirectly:
Vending machines on school premises
Brand loyalty through displays of logos and sponsorships.

Question 4

The cola-isation of schools Bedar

Answer 4

According to Beder (2009) UK families spent £110,000 in Tesco supermarkets in return for a single computer for schools.

Ball concluded that education is being turned into a commodity to be bought and sold. Similarly, Marxists such as Hall (2011) see these processes as just another way of turning education into a source of private profit.

Question 5

Blurring the public and private boundary

Answer 5

Many head teachers now leave to set up or work for private education businesses. These companies then bid for contracts to provide services to schools.

Pollack (2004): This flow of personnel allows companies to buy ‘insider knowledge’ to help win contracts.

Question 6

Privatisation and globalisation

Answer 6

Many private companies in the education services industry are foreign-owned. Edexcel is owned by US educational publishing giant Pearson, and according to Ball, some Pearson GCSE exam answers are now marked in Sydney and Iowa!