Edexcel A Level Sociology – Education -
The Privatization Of Education May 2024
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Define Privatisation - Answer>> The transfer of public assets
such as schools to private companies. there has been a growing
trend towards privatisation within education in the UK and
globally.
What does Ball refer to as education services industry(ESI)? -
Answer>> The fact that education has become a source of
profit for capitalists through the privatisation of education.
What are private companies in the ESI involved in? - Answer>>
Building schools
Providing supply teachers
Work-based learning
career advice
Ofsted inspection services
Running entire local education authorities.
What do Large-scale school building projects often involve? -
Answer>> Public-Private Partnerships
What do Private Sector companies provide?
How long do these contracts last?
How is the local council involved? - Answer>> Capital to design,
build, finance and operate educational services.
These contracts often last for 25 years or more
The local council pays a monthly lease and a management fee
out of public funds.
, What does Ball state about the profit companies make? -
Answer>> Companies involved expect to make ten times more
profit than they make on their other contracts. Local authorities
are forced toe enter such contracts as it is the only way to build
schools due to the lack of funding from central government.
What senior officials in the public sector do? - Answer>> Senior
officials such as local authority directors and head teachers leave
to set up or work for public sector businesses.
These contracts bid for for contracts to provide services to
schools and local authorities.
What does Pollack state about public sector officials moving to
private companies? - Answer>> This flow of personnel allows
companies to buy ' insider knowledge' to help win contracts as
well as side stepping local authority democracy.
What is common about private companies? - Answer>> They
are mostly foreign owned such as Edexcel which is owned by Us
educational publishing and testing giant Pearson.
What does Ball state about Pearson GCSE Exam answers? -
Answer>> They are marked in Sydney and Iowa.
What do Buckingham and Scalon state about the UK's four
leading educational software companies? - Answer>> They are
all owned by global multinationals (Disney, The US toy companies
Mattel and Hambro, and French media Corporation Vivendi).
Who sells many educational service contrast for school? -
Answer>> The original company to others such as banks and
investment funds. In a globalised world, these are done overseas.
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