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Thornton, Margaret – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law" is the first full-length critical study examining the impact of the dramatic reforms that have swept through universities over the last two decades. Drawing on extensive research and interviews in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada, Margaret Thornton considers the impact of the…
Descriptors: Law Schools, Foreign Countries, Public Colleges, Privatization
Turnamian, Peter – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2011
The author founded Greater Newark Charter School in 2000 at a time when charter schools were little more than a nuisance to the traditional public school establishment. Just two years earlier, when first learning about charter schools, he recalls questioning the necessity for "new" schools when so many operational public schools were in…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Personal Narratives, Educational Change, Accountability
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Woodhouse, Howard – International Education, 2011
In 1998 the World Bank published a "Reform Agenda" for higher education in the new millennium designed to accelerate privatization and the restructuring of the academic workforce. Before analyzing the report, I consider how changes in Canadian universities reflect the growth of the "knowledge-based economy." I then provide a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Universities, Educational Change
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Singelmann, Joachim – Rural Sociology, 2011
The Berlin Wall was one of the most visible symbols of two worlds that could not view each other. Thus, the fall of the Berlin Wall--and the fall of Communist regimes all over Eastern Europe, ultimately including the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself--removed the barrier to visibility. These events were revolutions that resulted in the end of…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Democracy, Group Unity, Foreign Countries
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O'Neill, John – Journal of Education Policy, 2011
This article presents the author's response to Strathdee's "Reply to O'Neill: The privatisation of public schooling in New Zealand." Strathdee has alerted the editors to a basic arithmetic error in the author's paper (O'Neill 2011, 24). He also makes substantive criticisms. Strathdee's criticisms focus on the two cases that are used to…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Consultants, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
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Gulson, Kalervo N.; Fataar, Aslam – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
This paper applies ideas that emanate from the Global North, concerning neoliberalism and neoliberal governmentality, to the case of marketisation in South Africa. It also attends to the limits of Northern ideas that are both intellectual undertakings and policy manifestations. In the first part of the paper, we identify how rationales for school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Political Attitudes, Public Sector
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Hill, Dave; Lewis, Christine; Maisuria, Alpesh; Yarker, Patrick; Carr, Julia – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2015
In this article we firstly set out the facts about the current stage of capitalism, the Immiseration stage of neoliberal capitalism in England. We note its relationship with conservatism and neo-conservatism. We identify increased societal inequalities, the assault by the capitalist state on its opponents, and proceed to describe and analyse what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Social Systems, Educational Policy
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Poole, Wendy; Fallon, Gerald – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2015
This paper examines increasing privatisation of education in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Conceptually, the paper is informed by theories of privatisation and social justice; and methodologically, it uses policy analysis to examine documents and financial records obtained from government departments. The paper critically analyses…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, School Districts, Social Justice, Foreign Countries
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Osses, Alejandra; Bellei, Cristián; Valenzuela, Juan Pablo – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2015
To what extent school improvement processes can be initiated and sustained from the outside has been a relevant question for policy-makers seeking to increase quality in education. Since 2008, the Chilean Government is strongly promoting the use of external technical support (ETS) services to support school improvement processes, as part of the…
Descriptors: Technical Assistance, Educational Improvement, Educational Resources, School Support
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Baker, Bruce; Miron, Gary – National Education Policy Center, 2015
This research brief details some of the prominent ways that individuals, companies, and organizations secure financial gain and generate profit by controlling and running charter schools. To illustrate how charter school policy functions to promote privatization and profiteering, the authors explore differences between charter schools and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Policy, Privatization, Ethics
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Knuth, Ulrike; Knierim, Andrea – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2013
Purpose: The aim of this article is to provide evidence on the consequences of the privatization process in Brandenburg with a focus on the agricultural advisors' situation. Before the background of future European Union (EU) expectations on Farm Advisory Systems (FAS), their capacities and competences to respond to such challenges are discussed.…
Descriptors: Information Transfer, Statistical Analysis, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
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Higham, Rob – Journal of Education Policy, 2014
Free school policy claims to partly decentralise to local proposers decisions over who provides a free school, where and for what reasons, within the constraints of a government approval process. This article analyses empirically the people and organisations doing the proposing and their interactions with the approval process. The article begins…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Schools, Privatization, Educational Policy
Loss, Christopher P., Ed.; McGuinn, Patrick J., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2016
In "The Convergence of K-12 and Higher Education," two leading scholars of education policy bring together a distinguished and varied array of contributors to systematically examine the growing convergence between the K-12 and higher education sectors in the United States. Though the two sectors have traditionally been treated as…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Alignment (Education)
Hunter, Richard – School Business Affairs, 2010
For-profit education is not a new focus for public schools in the United States. It has been around for several decades, has stimulated considerable controversy, and has been heralded by some as a panacea for improving learning for the nation's public school students. For-profit schools are run by private, for-profit companies or organizations…
Descriptors: Public Education, Privatization, Proprietary Schools, Educational Trends
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Kwiek, Marek – European Journal of Higher Education, 2012
Factors generating change in European higher education have been multilayered, interrelated and often common throughout the continent. The article, drawing from current research and policy debates, discusses the three issues: marketization, privatization, and the competition for public funding; conflicting demands and the teaching/research divide…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, Privatization
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