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Fighting the commercialisation of education 10 April 2018 Academic capitalism and the marketisation of United Kingdom Universities
By Howard Stevenson, University of Nottingham Staff in the UK’s ‘older universities’ are currently in a significant industrial dispute to defend their pensions. At the time of writing members of the University and College Union (UCU) have taken 14 days strike action, and are currently balloting on whether to accept...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 22 March 2018 Public education: a right that the Portuguese will fight to defend
By Mário Nogueira, General Secretary of FENPROF, Federação Nacional dos Professores (Portugal) In Portugal, public schools are the prevailing model and their success can be measured in different ways depending on the context.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 19 February 2018 Low-cost private schools in Peru: The high cost of low quality?
By Clara Fontdevila, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona. During the last two decades, there has been a significant rise in the relative numbers of non-state education providers as well as the share of private education enrolment in Peru. This change has been particularly striking in urban areas – in the case of...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 15 December 2017 Hidden privatization
By Sylvain Marois Vice-president, University Sector, Fédération nationale des enseignantes et enseignants du Québec This blog was originally published in French
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 12 December 2017 English school students face the future in ‘Zombie Schools’
By Howard Stevenson, University of Nottingham School students in England currently find themselves at the centre of a giant experiment in the marketisation of education, with the real possibility that they will pay for this ideological gamble with their futures. Those least able to bear the cost of policy incompetence...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 1 December 2017 U.S. and International Feedback Loops on the Privatization of Education
By Frank Adamson, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) On July 5th, 2017, the Education Minister of Liberia, George Werner, gave a keynote speech in Washington D.C. that outlined the role of charter schools in the developing world.[1] It is worth unpacking the empirical and geographic layers of...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 23 November 2017 Private foundations as policy shapers: new and emerging modalities of influence within the philanthropic sector
By Clara Fontdevila and Antoni Verger, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona The philanthropic sector has experienced significant changes in the last few decades. Not only has the sector become increasingly diverse but, more importantly, a new entrepreneurial approach has gained centrality.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 15 November 2017 The Partnership Schools for Liberia: A Critical Analysis
By Steve Klees, University of Maryland To experiment with the possible privatisation of its primary education system, Liberia initiated the Partnership Schools of Liberia (PSL) which turned over the management of 93 public schools to eight private contractors. This has been a very controversial experiment, both in Liberia and worldwide. ...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 7 November 2017 Teacher resistance to the Global Education Industry: potential, manifest and successful
By Bob Lingard, The University of Queensland, Australia Teacher Unions have provided important resistance and organised opposition to the Global Education Industry in nations and globally. This piece reflects on three examples of potential, manifest and successful teacher opposition to the privatisation and commercialisation of public schooling.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 24 October 2017 Educational privatisation: A latent phenomenon in Uruguay
By Eloísa Bordoli*, Pablo Martinis*, Mauro Moschetti**, Stefanía Conde* y Marcelo Alfonzo* *Universidad de la República (UdelaR)**Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 19 October 2017 We cannot ignore the significance of subtle shifts in language and first principles
By Angelo Gavrielatos, Education International Between 6-23 June 2017, during its 35th session, the UN's Human Rights Council adopted a follow-up resolution on the right to education.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 17 October 2017 Why we can’t see the PPP picture clearly
By Lynsey Robinson, EQUIPPPS & Jasmine Gideon, Birkbeck, University of London The landscape of partnerships in international development has been changing rapidly over the past decade, with significant realignment of roles between the state, private and third sectors[i] .This has led to Public Private Partnerships[ii] being promoted as the solution...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 12 October 2017 The debate about private education in Nepal: Struggles for access, quality and equity
By Tejendra Pherali, University College London & Pramod Bhatta, Tribhuvan University In recent decades, private network schools and ‘low-fee’ private schools have grown significantly in low-income contexts in Africa and South Asia. The former represents increasing commodification of education and the education sector as a domain of business/commercial investment and;...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 3 October 2017 The commercialisation of public schooling in Australia
By Anna Hogan, the University of Queensland The privatisation of public education is attracting a lot of attention around the world but what is happening within public schooling is falling under the radar. Increases in commercialisation in public schooling is attracting less scrutiny. Commercialisation is the creation, marketing and sale...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 22 September 2017 Pakistan: Questioning gender and teachers work in Low Fee Private Schools
By Momina Afridi, University of Toronto Low fee private schools under the umbrella of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in education in Punjab, Pakistan are increasingly being embraced by international donors, international non-governmental organisations and the government.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 13 September 2017 Strategic ignorance, political elites, and the false economy of education privatisation
By Susan L. Robertson, University of Cambridge I often puzzle over how it is that though we know so much about the spectacular failures of privatisation initiatives in the social and education sectors, international agencies and governments, from the UK to the USA and Liberia continue to be hell-bent on...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 8 September 2017 Evaluating the Liberian school privatisation program
By Tyler Hook, University of Wisconsin In September 2016, the Ministry of Education of Liberia officially launched a public private partnership called the Partnership Schools for Liberia (PSL) pilot, with 8 providers operating 93 schools. Promoted with the aim of dramatically improving learning outcomes for children, in an equitable, cost-effective,...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 7 August 2017 The private advantage that isn’t: School costs and student achievement in Australia
By Chris Bonnor Whenever Australian educators go overseas they are often asked how we provide and fund schools in the antipodes. It's hard to explain because it is complicated and at odds with practice elsewhere. It is a story about the failure of policy, supported by mounting evidence that our...
The private advantage that isn’t: School costs and student achievement in Australia