privatisation

• privatisation


  private companies providing services to schools instead of the state

  a feature of Neo-liberal economic policies since 1979

  states role is reduced - will still commission educational services and act as a regulator, monitoring school performance e.g OFSTED
• ball and youdell


  exogenous and endogenous privitisation
• endogenous privatisation


  privatisation in education

  involves schools and colleges operating in similar ways to private independent businesses

  e.g performance targets, competition with schools, marketing
• exogenous privatisation 


  privatisation of education - privatisation through outside influences.

  refers to opening up of state education to private education who design, manage or deliver education

  e.g private catering services, vending machines, Apple providing ICT, examination services
• pros of privatisation

  • creates more business-like - leads to raised standards of education
  • parentocracy
• cons of privatisation

  • money might be drained from education into private profit
  • leads to more inequality in schools
  • colonisation of schools - students become consumers at an early age
  • academies can use untrained teachers
  • control of curriculum can influence content taught
• neoliberalism 


  links to new right

  believes the state should have minimal role in proving for education

  education services should rely on systems similar to how businesses operate in a free market

  believe in marketisation and privatisation
• free market 


   neoliberalist idea

  an economic system based on supply and demand with little or no government control.
• ball - cola-isation of schools

  exogenous privatisation- private sector penetrating school indirectly

  e.g coke in vending machines

  large companies influence those in education from an early age to purchase their products and services.
• Molnar 


  argues that schools are targeted by private companies because they act as product endorsements
• local education authority (LEA)

  • responsible for state-funded schools and colleges
  • e.g set out budgets to schools, negotiate contracts, resources that school requires
  • coalition gov 2010-2015 - many schools opted out of LEA control to manage themselves
• multi-academy trusts (MATs)


  where several schools are run under one centralised management structure

  e.g the shared learning trust run 5 schools in Bedfordshire
• academies 


  state funded schools that are independent from LEAs

  receive funding from gov but have freedom to manage own budgets, hire staff, do not have to follow national curriculum

  created under new labour policies 1999
• ball - myth of parentocracy


  believes marketisation and privatisation policies make it appear to parents that they have choice
• 4 key ideas of privatisation

  1. Competition between schools (‘endogenous’ privatisation)
  2. External (exogenous) privatisation of education
  3. Choice and voice for parents and pupils
  4. Surveillance of teachers and top down performance management.
• ball


  education is a commodity to be bought and sold to other markets

  losing the role of being a provider of education services