Marketisation Flashcards
Marketisation meaning
Process of which services are pushed towards operating like a business based on supply and demand, students considered consumers rather than pupils
Three features of marketisation
Independence - allowing schools to run themselves how they see fit
Competition - making schools compete with each other for students
Choice - giving customers (parents and students) more choice over where go to school
Three elements of quality control
Ofsted inspections
Publication of performance tables such as exam results
National curriculum, baseline for what is taught
Privatisation of education
Opening up aspects of education to private businesses such as staff training, school finances, school management (academy chains) and exams
Privatisation in education
Changing the internal processes of a school to be more like a business e.g. treating parents
Evaluation of privatisation of education
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
Less equality
Conservative policies promoting marketisation 1979-1997
League tables (ensures schools with good results more in demand, good schools can be more selective and mainly recruit middle class and avoid taking less able pupils, “cream-skimming” and “silt-shifting”
Funding Formula (funds allocated by how many pupils they attract, unpopular schools lose income, produce more educational inequality)
Open enrolment (parents allowed to choose where to send child, over enrolment, schools pick the children)
Labour policies promoting marketisation 1997-2010
Business sponsored academies (give fresh start to struggling inner-city schools with mainly working class pupils)
Specialist schools (focus on on various subjects, provide expertise in areas such as art- businesses can work with them and compete to be chosen)
Coalition policies promoting marketisation 2010-2015
New style academies (allowed any school to become an academy not just disadvantaged ones, removed focus on reducing inequality)
Free schools (set up and run by teachers, parents and businesses, claim to give parents opportunity to make new school is unhappy with state ones, argued only benefit high education families and lower standards, England free schools take fewer disadvantaged pupils)
Conservative policies promoting raising standards 1979-1997
Ofsted (standardised national body, produce reports on whether meeting nationally agreed standards in education)
National curriculum (all students in state schools taught same content at same time)
National testing (e.g. SATs, as all learning same content can all be tested together to find fair comparisons)
Labour policies promoting raising standards 1997-2010
Maximum class sizes for 5-7 year olds
Building schools for the future program (aims to improve school buildings and provide investment in tech, make up for underinvestment in school buildings)
Education Action zones (provide deprived areas with additional resources)
Business sponsored academies (businesses choose to support underperforming academy)
