Privatisation Flashcards
What are ESI’s? (Ball)
Educational services industries - capitalists making profit from building schools
What are PPPs?
Public-private partnership - private companies build schools, provide Ofsted inspectors and supply teachers and lease them to local authorities.
How did Ball (2007) critique PPPs?
Local Authorities have to depend on private companies building schools because of the lack of govt funding (centralisation)
What happens after headteachers or local authorities leave their jobs?
They join private companies and give them insider info to win contracts
How does Pollack (2004) critique public sector workers going into the private sector?
Companies gain insider knowledge and are able to win more contracts and circumvent local authorities giving permission
Is Edexcel owned by Disney?
No - Pearson (US)
According to Ball, who marks exam papers?
People in Sydney and Iowa
What did Buckingham and Scanlon (2005) state about educational software?
Owned by conglomerates such as Disney and Mattel
Is education being controlled more by private companies than the nation-state?
Yes, increasingly as the UK outsources work to companies abroad such as Ofsted-like inspectors
What is the cola-isation of schools?
Schools being used as brand deals for companies through sponsorships and logos
State two examples of cola-isation
Ball - Cadbury - pupils were required to eat 5,440 chocolate bars just to get a set of volleyball posts
Beder (2009) Tescos - families spent £110,000 to get a single computer for a school
According to Molnar (2005), why are schools used for sponsorships?
Because they are seen as carrying ‘an enormous amount of goodwill’ giving the private companies legitimacy to do whatever.
How is education becoming commodified?
Ball - policy is being created to move educational services from the public sector to the private and schools are a ‘legitimate object of private profit-making’
How else does Marxists critique the commodification of schools?
Hall (2011) - coalition policies ‘long march of the neoliberalism revolution’ - privatisation claims to benefit students but is myth that legitimises inequality within the education system
How have policies concerning ethnicity changed over time?
Assimilation (1960s - 70s) - assimilate ethnic minorities into British culture to raise achievement
Multiculturalism (1980s and 90s) - promoting achievement by valuing different cultures into the curriculum
Social inclusion (90s - present) e.g. monitoring exam results by ethnicity; amending the Race Relations Act so that schools have a legal duty to promote racial equality
