Smaller policies

• Blurring the public and private boundary


  Senior directors in the public sector are now leaving to work in the education private sector
• Senior directors leaving public sector for private sector


  Allows companies to buy insider knowledge to help win contracts, as well as side stepping local authority democracy
• Privatisation and the globalisation of education policy


  Many private companies in the education services industry are foreign owned
• Leading educational software companies


  • Four are all owned by global multinationals
• Some UK education businesses work overseas
• The cola-isation of schools


  The private sector is penetrating schools indirectly through vending machines, this leads to the development of brand loyalty through displays of logos and sponsorships
• Schools are targeted by private companies as schools by their nature carry enormous goodwill and can thus confer legitimacy on anything associated with them
• Education as a commodity


  A fundamental change is taking place in which privatisation is becoming the key factor shaping educational policy
• Policy is increasingly focused on moving educational services out of the public sector controlled by the nation-state to be provided by private companies instead
• Education has been turned into a profit-making market
• Coalition government policies


  Part of the long march of the neoliberal revolution
• Academies are an example of handing over public services to private capitalists
• The neoliberal claim that privatisation has driven up standards is a myth used to legitimate the turning of education into a source of private profit