marketisation and privitisation

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  • liberalism approach for private businesses to manage resources efficiently by marketisation and privatisation in services like education operating it like a business
  • MARKETISATION
    idea market forces of supply and demands based on competition and consumer choice should be in education. new right agree in running education like a business to shop around and create competition to raise standards for parents and pupils and lead to higher achievement
  • 1988 EDUCATION REFORM ACT - marketisation 3 policies by right wing
    1. parental choice - parentocracy to choose where to send kids by shopping around for them to get best schools by researching AO3 - marxists say its a myth
    2. league tables - exam results published here to encourage parentocracy between schools and identify best schools AO3 - led to cream skimming and educational triage of a-c economy
  • 1988 EDUCATION REFORM ACT - marketisation 3 policies by right wing
    3. formula funding - money school sget for each pupil to reward successful schools that attract lots of pupils to improve and raise standards by forcing failing schools to improve AO3 - competition harder for poor schools and leads to polarisation of schools and educational inequalities
  • COALITION GOVERNMENT 2010-15 - conservative liberal promoted school diversity and parents more choice
    1. free schools - state school free from authority control thought to improve educational standards by taking control away from state and giving parents power of parentocracy for market forces of supply and demand AO3 - increase inequalities (mostly m/c, white pupils) less inclusive
    2. academies - all state schools independent from local authority for more freedom to run to be able to run like private businesses with marketisation AO3 - lack local checks to see what they do
  • COALITION GOVERNMENT 2010-15 - conservative liberal promoted school diversity and parents more choice
    3. privatisation - private companies deliver service to state schools profit making eg. supply agencies £180 a day, exam boards charge for everything, cola isation of education to sell brands indirectly to create brand loyalty
    AO3 - exam boards reproduce SC inequalities as w/c have material dep
    supply agencies high fee means teachers employ cover supervisors unqualified so cheaper leading to limited learning