THE NEW RIGHT

• New right views 


  they favour marketisation in education

  they believe that the current education system is failing

  schools need to be self sufficient to survive
• all linked to competition amongst schools
• education should not be focusing on promoting equality but with training the workforce

  making sure most students have talents developed and are recruited into the best jobs
• how do schools attract consumers

  • grades
  • opportunities
  • location
  • league tables
  • subject choices
  • open days
  • good facilities
  • freedom and choice
• the new right favours the use of market forces

  consumers (pupils and parents) have no choice and choose and range of products

  producers (schools and teachers) compete to produce the best product at the best price

  this raises standards eg grades
• schools are run like businesses
• Chubb and Moe 


  they look at the consumers choice

  • no equality in state schools e.g. sets
  • skills are useless for the economy
  • private schools are better as they are answerable to parents
• evaluation of the new right theory

  middle class benefit from marketisation - Gewirtz and ball

  the working class go to local schools which could be failing

  middle class shave the money to pay for the private schools transport

  middle class shave a selection by mortgage as they can move near to a better school

  w/c may not have the internet to look at league tables and Ofsted reports

  cultural deprivation - cant understand things

  parents do not have much control or choice

  schools have the ultimate choice

  lack of funding