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Neoliberalism and Four Spheres of Authority in American Education: Business, Class, Stratification, and Intimations of Marketization
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Ford, Brian – Policy Futures in Education, 2020
This is the second of three articles on "Sources of Authority in Education". All use the work of Amy Gutmann as a heuristic device to describe and explain the prevalence of market-based models of Education Reform in the United States as part of what Pasi Sahlberg terms the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM). This movement is based…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Entrepreneurship, Citizenship, Privatization
Global Education Reform: How Privatization and Public Investment Influence Education Outcomes
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Adamson, Frank, Ed.; Astrand, Bjorn, Ed.; Darling-Hammond, Linda, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016
With contributions from Linda Darling-Hammond, Michael Fullan, Pasi Sahlberg, and Martin Carnoy, "Global Education Reform" is an eye-opening analysis of national educational reforms and the types of high-achieving systems needed to serve all students equitably.The collection documents the ideologically and educationally distinctive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Privatization, Ideology
The Intensification of Rankings Logic in an Increasingly Marketised Higher Education Environment
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Locke, William – European Journal of Education, 2014
Rankings and online comparison sites have both facilitated and shaped the marketisation of higher education in England, the UK as a whole and elsewhere. They have facilitated marketisation by introducing greater competition between and within higher education institutions. Ultimately, they accomplish the transformation of qualities into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Competition, Commercialization
Private Higher Education in China: Access to Quality Higher Education and the Acquisition of Labour Market Qualifications by Low-Income Students
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FengLiang, Li; Morgan, W. John – Education, Knowledge & Economy: A Journal for Education and Social Enterprise, 2008
The development of private higher education in China is an important area of policy concern and for academic research, especially under the conditions of globalization. This article reviews the current situation and forecasts the likely trend in several key areas, such as governmental regulation, funds and competition for enrolments. The article…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Labor Market, Social Stratification
Indian Private Higher Education in Comparative Perspective. PROPHE Working Paper Series. WP No. 13
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Levy, Daniel C. – Program for Research on Private Higher Education, 2008
India demonstrates many features characteristic of private higher education in much of the world. Among these features are proportional size, with roughly 30 percent of total enrollment, and fast growth. Also rather typical is finance, which comes almost exclusively from non-government sources, principally tuition, while public higher education is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Private Sector, Democracy
Access through Private Higher Education: "Global Patterns and Indian Illustrations". PROPHE Working Paper Series. WP No. 11
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Levy, Daniel C. – Program for Research on Private Higher Education, 2008
One of the salient concerns in contemporary higher education internationally is access, which is rapidly expanding. Another salient trend is the rapid expansion of private higher education. These two salient tendencies have not been treated in scholarship as heavily intertwined. Much of the reason is that many people associate "private"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Educational Trends, Public Colleges