Privatization Policies

Services once owned/provided by the state are now run by private companies

The importation of ideas from the private sector so the public sector is more business like. For example: competition between schools, performance related pay and per capita funding

The privatization of state education where the state has ceased to be provider of education services and it is instead run by private companies and organisations

Buckingham and Scanlon argue that global multinationals are marketing education software and cola-isation occurs when there is product endorsement

Ball argued that the cadburys sport equipment was scrapped as an estimated over 5000 chocolate bars were required for a set of volley ball posts

Beder found in the UK parents, pupils and teachers had to spend £11,000 in Tesco for a single computer in schools

Education has become a commodity and privatized

1) It comissions educational services

2) It acts as a regulator through league tables, targets and ofsted. Acting as a quality control