Exogenous Privatisation Flashcards
the setting up of academies
academies can seek 10 percent of their funding from buisnesses or charities which increases the influence of private interests over the running of the school, and some recent acadmemy chains like the enterprise trust are run by private compamies, and managed by people witha abckground in buisness rather than those with a background in teaching
the building and maintaining school buildings
under new labour a programme of new buildings for schools was financed through the private finance initiative. priv companies did the building , but in return were given contracts to repay the investment and provided maintenence of 25-30 years . the colleges etc had to pay the ongoing costs
running examination systems
the UKs largest exam body is edexcel is run by the global corporation pearsons. pearsosns run the exam board in over 70 countries , meaning it sets the exams, pays the examiners, runs the training courses whuch teachers need to attend the understand the criteria and increasingly it writes the text books
the expansion of the eduaction services industry (more generally)
this is realted to the above point - there are more international corporations involved in ed than ever before - two examples include google and apple both of which are well poised to play an increasing rile in proving eduactional services for a profit.
