marketisation & segregation

• marketisation

  -process of introducing 'market forces' to education system
• market forces

  choice > pupils can choose school to go to

  > schools can choose whether to accept

  competition > schools compete to attract best pupils who'll

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• Gillborn (1997)


  -marketisation puts ethnic minorities at disadvantage

  -schools can choose not to accept
• Moore & Davenport (1990)

  -argue selection procedures lead to segregation

  -ethnic minorities are unable to get into better schools

  -leads to education system that's ethnically stratified