Education policies: Marketisation Flashcards
What is marketisation?
The process where by services like education are pushed towards operating like a business based on supply and demand. Students considered consumers rather than pupils
What is privatization IN education?
Changing internal processes of a school to be more like a business - treating parents and students as consumers (target setting, performance related pay, league tables)
What is privatization OF education?
Opening aspects of education to private businesses such as staff training, school finances, academy chains and exams
What is parentocracy?
Parents able to have more choice where to send their children
Three features of marketisation
Independence
Competition
Choice
Three elements of quality control
Ofsted inspections
Publication of league table results
National curriculum
3 Positives of privatization of education
More efficient
More parental choice
Profit making might help businesses to help failing schools
3 Negatives of privatization of education
Takes money from the education system
Businesses go out of business - leaves schools stranded
Less equality
Conservative policies: Marketisation
League tables
Formula funding
Open enrollment
New Labour policies: Marketisation
Business sponsored Academies
Specialist schools
Coalition policies: Marketisation
New style academies
Free schools
Conservative policies: raising standards
Ofsted
National curriculum
National testing
New Labour policies: raising standards
Maximum class sizes 5-7
Building schools for the future programme
Educational Action Zones
Business sponsored academies
Coalition policies: raising standards
Pupil premium
Reform of national curriculum
Reform of exam system
Tougher performance targets for schools
Evaluation
Myth of meritocracy - parents don’t have equal opportunity to choose the schools their child attends due to covert selection processes.
Educational Triage - Teachers give students on a C/D level more resources (A-C economy) needed for league tables - ignores others
