Educational Policy and Inequality - Marketisation.

Policy Issue: Marketisation - The process of introducing market forces of consumer choice and competition between educational instituitions since the 1980s. - It aims to reduce direct state control over education in order to raise educational standards.

• RANKING OF SCHOOLS

Reducing: Drives up standards, means of measuring performance, parentocracy.

Reproducing: Cream skim and silt shift, educational triage, reduces collaboration.

However, marketisation policies have served to reproduce social inequalities in educational achivement. This is because more powerful groups are better able to 'work the system' and are attractive customers to schools trying to excel in an education market place.

Policy Issue: Marketisation - The process of introducing market forces of consumer choice and competition between educational instituitions since the 1980s. - It aims to reduce direct state control over education in order to raise educational standards.

• ENROL AT ANY SCHOOL

Reducing: Improve or close down, greater degree of  choice, parentocracy.

Reproducing: Gewirtz (1995) privileged-skilled choosers, myth of parentocracy and legitimates inequalities.

However, marketisation policies have served to reproduce social inequalities in educational achivement. This is because more powerful groups are better able to 'work the system' and are attractive customers to schools trying to excel in an education market place.

Policy Issue: Marketisation - The process of introducing market forces of consumer choice and competition between educational instituitions since the 1980s. - It aims to reduce direct state control over education in order to raise educational standards.

• OPTED OUT/FORCED OUT OF LEA
• SOMETIMES SPONSERED OR OPERATE AS CHAINS

Reducing: City academies, greater control.

Reproducing: Lost its focus on reducing inequality, many MC schools becoming academies, Marxists - serve to spread a myth but turn education into a profit.

However, marketisation policies have served to reproduce social inequalities in educational achivement. This is because more powerful groups are better able to 'work the system' and are attractive customers to schools trying to excel in an education market place.

Policy Issue: Marketisation - The process of introducing market forces of consumer choice and competition between educational instituitions since the 1980s. - It aims to reduce direct state control over education in order to raise educational standards.

• FUNDING BASED PER PUPIL

Reducing: Rewards with money, control over finances.

Reproducing: Popular schools wel funded, unpopular schools reduced funding.

However, marketisation policies have served to reproduce social inequalities in educational achivement. This is because more powerful groups are better able to 'work the system' and are attractive customers to schools trying to excel in an education market place.

Policy Issue: Marketisation - The process of introducing market forces of consumer choice and competition between educational instituitions since the 1980s. - It aims to reduce direct state control over education in order to raise educational standards.

• SET UP AND RUN BY PARENTS, TEACHERS, FIATH ORGANISATIONS OR BUSINESSES
• INDEPENDANT OF LEAS

Reducing: Opportunities if unhappy.

Reproducing: Taking away precious government funding, serveto fragment comprehensiive education system.

However, marketisation policies have served to reproduce social inequalities in educational achivement. This is because more powerful groups are better able to 'work the system' and are attractive customers to schools trying to excel in an education market place.