The privatisation of education.

Question 1

Define privatisation in terms of education.

Answer 1

It involves the transfer of public assets such as schools to private companies.

Question 2

What is the ESI and what does it involve?

Answer 2

Where the privatisation of education becomes a profit for capitalists. It involves increased activities in education, for example Ofsted inspection services.

Question 3

What is the cola-isation of schools?

Answer 3

This is where private companies ‘penetrate’ education for example through vending machines and brand logos.

Question 4

How are the benefits of private sector involvement in schools limited?

Answer 4

UK families had to spend 100,000 in Tesco in return for a single computer.

Question 5

What do marxists argue about privatisation?

Answer 5

That the fact that it ‘drives up standards’ is a myth used to legitimate the turning of education into a source of private profit.

Question 6

What did Ball conclude about privatisation?

Answer 6

It is becoming the key factor shaping educational policy as it is increasingly focused on moving educational services outside of the public sector into the private sector.

Question 7

Which policies affected girls’ achievement?

Answer 7

The tripartite system- Girls had to achieve higher than boys.
GIST - 1970

Question 8

Which policies affected achievement on the grounds of ethnicity?

Answer 8

Assimilation- Helping ethnic minorities ‘fit in’ to British culture to help them achieve.
Multicultural education- policies 1980-1990. Raising self-esteem by promoting the value of all cultures.
Social inclusion- Incl:
-Monitoring of ethnic minority exam results
-English as an additional language programme
-Race Relations Act

Question 9

How has the MCE and the Social inclusion policies been critisized?

Answer 9

MCE: Black pupils do not fail due to low self-esteem.
Mirza: Doesn’t tackle racism/poverty.