Biased Beliefs and Search in Education Markets

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Agte
Keyword(s):  
Education Markets

Choice and Competition in Education Markets

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Bayer ◽  
Robert McMillan
Keyword(s):  
Education Markets

scholarly journals Education Policy

2015 ◽  
Vol 231 ◽  
pp. R36-R43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Allen
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Teacher Recruitment ◽  
Traditional Curriculum ◽  
Coalition Partner ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Teacher Workforce ◽  
Education Markets

This article summarises the 2010–15 Coalition government's education policy, contrasting their attempts to liberalise education markets with the desire to impose a highly traditional curriculum. The government's quite radical reforms have not been easy to implement, taking place against severe budgetary constraints and a minority Coalition partner with ambitions to improve the educational outcomes of children from low income families. It could be argued that the reforms have been successfully implemented, and there is little prospect of wholesale reversal by any future government. However, their combative approach to reform leaves a demotivated teacher workforce, a possible impending teacher recruitment crisis as the economy recovers, and a tangled web of accountability structures that will need to be resolved.

Inequalities, a European Union and education markets, 1990-97

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-140
Author(s):  
Sally Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
University Courses ◽  
Race And Education ◽  
White Majority ◽  
The Government ◽  
Education Markets ◽  
Capital Services ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
Free Movement Of Capital

This chapter demonstrates that during the 1990s more tensions emerged over immigration after the signing of the Maarstricht Treaty on European Union in 1992 which guaranteed free movement of capital, services and people. There was also a surge in the number of refugees and asylum seekers from global conflicts. The 1991 Census included an ‘ethnic question’ and the geographical spread of settled minorities became clearer. Political ideologies of a white indigenous nation became more closely tied to assertions that a white majority were missing out in housing, health services and education. The chapter discusses the legislation which encompassed almost every aspect of education, turning education into a marketplace with parental ‘choice’ and competition between schools. The government took control of the curriculum and assessment and multicultural dimensions were derided and dismissed Much teacher preparation and university courses on race and education disappeared over the decade. Prime Minister Major left office declaring policies must be ‘colour blind’ and just tackle disadvantage.

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