marketisation- education policies

• privatisation in education-

  means changing the internal processes of a school to be more like a business
• privatisation of education-

  means opening up aspects of education to private businesses s
• parentocracy-

  -means when a Childs educational achievement has more to do with parental wealth and wishes rather than student ability

  -parents are able to have more choice than children
• three features of marketisation

  -independence

  -competition

  -choice
• evaluation of privatisation of education

  -positives- more efficient, more choice, profit making might induce companies to support failing schools

  -negatives- takes money from the education system, less equality
• evaluation of marketisation policies and raising standards

  -myth of parentocracy- parents don't have equal freedom to choose the school due to covert selection process, postcode lotteries in catchment areas, middle class parents have more freedom in choice due to their cultural capital higher education and income
• educational triage

  -teachers tend to allocate more resources to the students who are on the c/d boarder line in order to a achieve the higher grades needed for the league tables thus ignoring those who are unlikely to achieve this
• dumbing down

  -due to the funding formula, schools need to retain and attract students in order to receive funding

  -schools will therefore lead to the dumbing down of teaching and standards in order to retain students who might leave if they are pushed too hard or the course is too difficult
• reduced quality control

  -ofsted is not as independent as it appears with government and politicians interfering with the process by changing the standards and goal posts