Privatisation in Education Flashcards

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What does privatisation in education mean?

Private firms are involved in running schools or providing services to them.

Bringing market ideas into state schools, like targets and competition.

Letting private companies sell services to schools or build schools.

When a school hires a private company to run a service.

Private firms that sell exams, software, books and advice to schools.

A private firm builds and runs school buildings, and the state pays over many years.

Brands enter schools through sponsorship, adverts or voucher schemes.

They are state schools run by trusts that often use private firms.

Seeing education as a product that can be bought and sold.

League tables that make schools compete for pupils.

It can bring efficiency or new ideas into schools.

Profit may come before pupils and can widen inequality.