Topic 6

• Academies:

  • Leave local authority control, independent, state-funded
  • Increased competition and fragmentation
• Free schools:

  • State-funded but independently run by parents
  • Parents choose what's best for their children, can be selective
• Fragmentation (Ball):

  • Comprehensive schools replaced by academies and free schools, leading to greater inequality in education
• Privatisation:

  • Transfer of public assets to private companies
  • Private education companies are foreign-owned
• Cola-isation:

  • Schools targeted by private companies
  • Introduction of vending machines and brands
  • Education as a commodity, moved to private control for profit
• What is the tripartite system?

  Grammar schools, secondary modern, technical 
• What is marketisation?


  running schools like businesses 
• whats parentocracy?


  ruled by parents, higher quality education 
• Bartlett

  Cream skimming and silt shifting school can pick who they accept because of marketisation 
• What is funding formula?


  schools receive funding based on amount of students, popular schools get more funding 
• Gewirtz: parental choice 

  • Privileged skilled choosers, mc have economic and cultural capital and therefore have choice unlike wc 
• Ball: myth of parentocracy, not every parent has choice 
• Who says schools are targeted by private companies?


  Molnar