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Fighting the commercialisation of education 9 February 2021 “Post-pandemic reform of higher education: Market-first or purpose-first digital transformation?”, by Ben Williamson and Anna Hogan.
Ben Williamson, Anna Hogan
Educational technologies have become central to higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The state of emergency in tertiary systems worldwide has enabled private edtech companies, global tech businesses, and the networks of promoters backing them, to define the post-pandemic future of the university.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 16 September 2020 “Teachers taking the lead to effect real change: a once-in-a-generation opportunity”, by Howard Stevenson
Howard Stevenson
These are the most extraordinary times. At the start of 2020, almost nobody could have anticipated the extent, and the manner, in which the world has been turned upside down by a virus that has taken hundreds of thousands of lives and left nobody unaffected.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 22 July 2020 Catalonia: When publicly subsidized private schools go against the mandates of public education, by Mauro Moschetti & Alejandro Caravaca.
Mauro Moschetti
The Catalan Government has recently decided to withdraw the subsidies to all private schools in Catalonia that segregate students based on their sex (1), as they do not fulfill the principle of coeducation. These schools, most of which belong to conservative religious institutions, have been publicly subsidised for decades. However,...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 10 July 2020 "The edtech pandemic shock", by Ben Williamson & Anna Hogan.
Ben Williamson
The Covid-19 pandemic was the context for two major disruptions in education. The first was the disruption to schooling for millions of students worldwide, and a rapid shift to remote learning online. The second, closely related disruption was the entry of the commercial education technology sector into public education at...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 10 July 2020 Edtech Pandemic Shock: New EI research launched on COVID-19 education commercialisation
Education International has launched groundbreaking new research which maps the extent of private actors’ influence in education since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research has been commissioned as part of Education International's Global Response to the Commercialisation and Privatisation of Education.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 9 April 2020 "World Bank shifts position on funding for most private-for-profit schools", by David Edwards.
David Edwards
In a sudden and far-reaching policy shift, World Bank President David Malpass has agreed to major reforms that include officially freezing any direct or indirect investments in private for-profit pre-primary, primary and secondary schools. This has been a critical issue for Education International for many years and has been the...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 4 June 2019 Nigeria: Union steps up campaign against privatisation and commercialisation of education
The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) has stated its determination to prevent exploitation of the poor by marketers in education.
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22 March 2019 « In sheep’s clothing: Philanthropy and the privatisation of the ‘democratic’ state »
By Carolina Junemann and Antonio Olmedo
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 5 October 2018 US educators fight over student debt and loan fraud
American Federation of Teachers’ members have filed a class-action lawsuit against the student loan servicer Navient for misleading borrowers and called for immediate action.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 12 October 2017 Nepal: for-profit education hits underfunded public school system
The combination of chronic underfunding and private, profit-driven interests are being lethal to the Nepalese public education system, a new study finds.
Nepal: for-profit education hits underfunded public school system