Topic2 Education- Pivatisation Flashcards
What is privatisation
It involves the transfer of public assets such as schools to private companies
What does education become as a source of for capitalists
A source of profit
What does Ball call the education system that makes profit
Education services industry (ESI)
What are private companies in the education services industry (ESI) involved in (5)
- building schools
- providing teachers
- careers advice
- ofsted inspection services
- running entire LEAs
What do large scale building projects often involve
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in which the private sector companies provide capital to design, build, finance and operate educational services
State the 4 trends in privatisation
- blurring the public/ private boundary
- privatisation and the globalisation of education policy
- the cola-isation of schools
- education as a commodity
1) Blurring the public/ private boundary
- what do many senior officials in the public sector such as directors of Local authorities and headteachers now leave to do
They leave to set up or work for private sector education businesses, often hired as consultants by schools to advise them
1) Blurring the public/ private boundary
- what policy has also blurred the public/ private boundary
Academisation
1) Blurring the public/ private boundary
- how has the policy of academisation blurred the boundary between public/ private sector
Many academies are run and operated by private coorporations and become part of a chain. As Pollack notes, this flow of personnel allows companies
1) Blurring the public/ private boundary
- how has the policy of academisation blurred the public/ private boundary (2)
- many academies are run and operated by private coorporations and become part of a chain.
- as Pollack notes, this flow of personnel allows companies to buy ‘insider knowledge’ to help with contracts, as well as side-stepping local authority democracy (reflecting the policy of marketisation, NR)
2) privatisation and the globalization of education policy
- many private companies in the education services industry are …
foreign- owned
2) privatisation and the globalization of education policy
- what does Ball say about where some exam papers are marked
some Pearson GCSE exam answers are now marked in Sydney and Iowa
2) privatisation and the globalization of education policy
- what do Buckingham and Scanlon say about the UK’s four leading educational software companies
-the UK’s 4 leading educational software companies are owned by global multinationals (Disney)
2) privatisation and the globalization of education policy
- what are many contracts for educational services in the UK sold by the original company sold to
banks and investment funds or overseas companies
3) the cola-isation of schools
- how is the private sector penetrating education indirectly (brand loyalty)
-for example, through vending machines on school premises and the development of brand loyalty through displays of logos and sponsorship
3) the cola-isation of schools
- what does Molnar say about schools
-schools are targeted by private companies because ‘schools by their very nature carry enormous goodwill and can thus confer legitimacy on anything associated with them.’- schools are a kind of product endorsement
4) education as a commodity
- what does Ball say about education (2)
- education is involving profit for businesses
- privatisation is becoming the key factor shaping educational policy
4) education as a commodity
- what does Privatisation mean for the state
-privatisation means that the state is losing its role as the provider of educational services
4) education as a commodity
- why is Ball critical of privatisation
-more and more areas of education are now subject to business practices and financial logics, and brought and sold as assets and made part of investment portfolios
4) education as a commodity
- what does Marxists such as Hall see coalition government policies as part of
-as part of the ‘long march of the neo-liberal revolution’
4) education as a commodity
- how does Hall see academies
-Hall sees academies as an example of handing over public services to private capitalists, such as educational businesses
4) education as a commodity
- in the Marxist view, what is a myth
-the neo-liberal claim that privatisation and competition drive up standards is a myth used to legitimate the turning of education into a source of private profit
the impact of neo-liberalism ca be identified through marketisation and privatisation
-state the 2 processes that represent this view
1) the introduction of an internal market within the state education system
2) the privatisation of state education
1) the intro of an internal market within the state education system
- what was this established by
this was established by the 1988 ERA, which directed state schools to act more like private businesses, e.g. competing for pupils.
