Education Policies (Marketisation)

Question 1

Marketisation

Answer 1

Means the process of where by services like education are pushed towards operating like a business based on supply and demand. Students are considered consumers rather than pupils

Question 2

Privatisation IN education

Answer 2

Means changing the internal processes of a school to be more like a business, for example treating parents and students as consumers, target setting, performance related pay and league tables

Question 3

Privatisation OF education

Answer 3

Means opening up aspects of education to private businesses such as staff training, school finances, school management and exams

Question 4

Parentocracy

Answer 4

Means when a child’s educational achievement has more to do with parental wealth and wants than the students ability. Parents are able to have more choice over where to send their children

Question 5

Three features of marketisation

Answer 5

1. Independence–> allowing schools to run themselves how they see fit
2. Competition: Making schools compete with each other
3. Choice–> Giving customers (parents and students more choice in where they go to school

Question 6

Conservative GOV

Answer 6

• League tables
• Local mangagment schools
• Funding formular
• open enrolement

Raising standards:
- Ofsted
- National curriculum
- National testing

Question 7

Labour Gov

Answer 7

• Business sponsored Academies
• Specialist schools

Raising standards:
- Maximum class sizes for 5-7 year old
- Building schools for the future program
- Education Action zones
- business sponsored Academies

Question 8

Evaluation of Privatisation of education

Answer 8

Positives:

• More Efficient
• More choice for parents
• Profit making might induce companies to support failing schools

Negatives:

• Takes money from the education system
• Business go out of business- leave schools stranded (Sink schools)
• Less equality

Question 9

Evaluation of Marketisation polices and raising standards

Answer 9

• Myth of Parentocracy
  –> Parents do not have equal freedom to choose the schools which their child attends due to covert selection process, catchment areas
  –> M/C parents have much more freedom in choice due to their cultural capital, high education and income
• Educational Triage
  –> Teachers tend to allocate more resources to the students who are on the C/D border in order to achieve 5 GCSE needed for the league table thus ignoring those who are unlikely to achieve this
• Dumbing down
  –> Due to formular funding, schools need to retain and attract students in order to receive funding. Schools will therefore lead to the dumbing down of teaching and standards in order to retain students who might leave if they are pushed too hard or if the courses are too difficult
• Reduced quality control
  –> Ofsted is not independent as it appears with governments and politicians interfering with the process by changing the standards and goal posts