Neoliberalism and the New right

Question 1

introduction

Answer 1

marketisation - introducing market forces with competition between suppliers and consumer choice , in institutions like healthcare, education

Question 2

first POINT

Answer 2

internal market of competition between suppliers improves standards as non-state service providers must offer good service in order to be successful.

Question 3

first EVIDENCE

Answer 3

Jessica Hill - found the UK’s 7 largest agencies recorder £68 million in profit from the 90,000 supply teachers in the UK

Question 4

first EXPLANATION

Answer 4

supplier competition also in schools like cleaning and catering companies through competitive bidding processes

Question 5

first ANALYSIS

Answer 5

Chubb and Moe- call for greater performance related pay to encourage supplier competition in teaching

Question 6

second POINT

Answer 6

consumer choice needed to improve schools

Question 7

second EVIDENCE

Answer 7

Education act 1980 - allowed parents to choose what schools to send their children if it wasn’t oversubscribed and
schools required to publish exam results

Academisation ( ~ 2000s ) - academies set their own admission policies

Question 8

second EXPLANATION

Answer 8

1. consumer choice because parents can choose what schools to send their kids
2. undersubscribed schools receive less funding

Question 9

second ANALYSIS

Answer 9

GCSE league tables developed into progress 8 which measures value of added progress compared to SATS prediction

information of standards of students must be wildly available to consumers

Question 10

third POINT

Answer 10

Neoliberal educational critics argue inequalities create unequal schools therefore reproduce class inequality

Question 11

third EVIDENCE

Answer 11

Will Bartlett
1. high performing schools with the best league table results have more priveledged choosers
2. Consumer choice means parents select high peroforming schools bassed on leageu table
3. cream skimming- selecting high achieving students who tend to be white , middle class
4. silt- shifting - refusing low achieving students who tend to be ehtnic minorities and working class

Therefore inequalities reproduced

Question 12

third ANALYSIS

Answer 12

Ofsted 2018 found schools in poor areas are 5x more likely to be failing

Question 13

fourth POINT

Answer 13

Neoliberal educational critiques- policies that advantage white , middle-class and creating DEA and reinforces social inequality

Question 14

fourth EVIDENCE

Answer 14

Gerwitz
1. privileged skilled choosers
- have cultural capital and economic capital to send their kids to better schools i.e by paying for travel costs or moving closer to good schools

2. disadvantaged local choosers- cannot make informed choices, end up choosing local schools that tend not to be good school

Question 15

fourth ANALYSIS

Answer 15

Ball - argued white- middle class parents are skilled choosers, have connections with teachers or administrators to get a place

Question 16

fifth POINT

Answer 16

CRT - marketisation allows schools and parents to use race to discriminate students

Question 17

fifth EVIDENCE

Answer 17

Moore and Davenport
ethnic minority students tend to get rejected from schools under a marketised system

Question 18

fifth ANALYSIS

Answer 18

Commission for racial equality 1993
racism in schools lead to ethnic minority students ending up in poorer schools
schools and teachers can actively discriminate because they set their own admission policies