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Sit, Victoria – Education Canada, 2008
Neo-liberal policies and programs regarding higher education operate to fulfill either one of two main goals. The first is the privatization of public education. The second objective is the creation of an "iron cage" of economic rationality and standardization, which functions to regulate the production of human capital in the public education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Privatization, Corporations
Mok, Ka Ho; Xu, Xiaozhou – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2008
The economic transition in China since the late 1970s has led to not only drastic social transformations but also rapid advancements in science and technology, as well as the revolution in information and communications technology. In order to enhance the global competence of the Chinese population in coping with the challenges of a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
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Trnavcevic, Anita – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the open day at grammar schools in Slovenia (a post-socialist country) from two perspectives, namely from that of marketisation and commodification of education and from the point of view of marketing education. Slovenia, as have many countries around the world, undertook the restructuring of public schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Exhibits, Content Analysis
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Lipman, Pauline – Journal of Education Policy, 2008
This article uses a social justice framework to problematize national and local policies in housing and education which propose to reduce poverty and improve educational performance of low-income students through mixed-income strategies. Drawing on research on Chicago, the article argues mixed-income strategies are part of the neoliberal…
Descriptors: Privatization, Poverty, Income, Housing
Gill, Brian; Zimmer, Ron; Christman, Jolley; Blanc, Suzanne – RAND Corporation, 2007
Following a state takeover of the Philadelphia public schools in 2002, 45 schools were turned over to private managers, making Philadelphia the site of the nation's largest experiment in the private management of public schools. This study examines achievement effects in the privately managed schools, as well as in schools with district-led…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Administration, Educational Trends, Urban Schools
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Arrastia, Lisa – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2007
This article uses the global city of Chicago as an urban exemplar of a thirty-year worldwide economic shift toward public (state) private (corporate) partnerships. Advanced by racialized youth-development discourses in Chicago, private corporations, public education, and social housing are in alliance to transform "the problems of urban…
Descriptors: Corporations, Public Education, Public Housing, Urban Areas
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Motala, Shireen – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2009
Through an analysis of quantitative and qualitative data on school funding in South Africa, this paper aims to analyse the user fee policy option in public schooling in South Africa. Debate is ongoing about the role of private input into public schooling and whether this practice affects access (and the constitutional right) to basic education,…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Politics of Education
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Fuqian, Fang – Chinese Education and Society, 2006
People who advocate the privatization of public enterprises generally maintain that these enterprises, compared with private enterprises, have the following shortcomings: (1) public enterprises do not produce in response to consumer needs; (2) they use too much capital on inefficient production; (3) production often experiences breakdowns and…
Descriptors: Privatization, Business, Administrators, Incentives
Arem, Hannah E. – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2008
Globalization has emerged as a buzzword in a number of disciplines in recent years. The most recent wave of globalization is characterized by an increase in economic deregulation, privatization, structural adjustment policies, finance flows, global public debates, immigration, multiculturalism, and the technology revolution. In this paper, the…
Descriptors: Privatization, Global Approach, Anthropology, Cultural Pluralism
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Simmonds, David; Gibson, Rebecca – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of approaches to outsourcing HRD in the UK. Design/methodology/approach: This paper employs semi-structured interviews and case studies. The research model was developed from a literature review. Findings: There are many problems associated with outsourcing any or all aspects of the HRD…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Foreign Countries, Privatization, International Trade
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Gorski, Paul – Multicultural Perspectives, 2008
One of the relative failures of much of the multicultural education literature is the failure to connect educational inequities with larger sociopolitical conditions. Too often everyone falls into the trap of discussing educational sexism, for instance, as if it is disconnected from global abuses of women's rights. Perhaps nowhere is this…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Privatization, Poverty, Federal Legislation
Morphew, Christopher C., Ed.; Eckel, Peter D., Ed. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
With public colleges and universities facing substantial budget cuts and increased calls for accountability, more institutions now rely on private revenue streams for support. As market-driven policies and behaviors become more commonplace, some cautious critics sound the alarm, while others watching the bottom line cheer. But which perspective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Privatization, Research Universities
Pachuashvili, Marie – Program for Research on Private Higher Education, 2007
In most post-communist countries, the beginning of the 1990s witnessed creation and growth of private higher education institutions on the one hand and privatization of public educational services on the other. The Georgian developments mostly fit this general pattern, but, in many respects, it is an extreme case. First of all, both private and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Private Education, Higher Education
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Gabbard, David – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
Given the vacuity of political metaphors in the USA, most Americans might assume neoliberalism and neoconservatism to be at odds with one another. This article argues to the contrary. Neoconservatism has provided a solution to a crisis in neoliberalism--the crisis of how to manufacture the public's support for an agenda that was so decidedly…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Privatization, Mass Media Role, Television
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Nir, Adam E.; Naphcha, Melly – International Journal of Educational Management, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of research is to attempt to determine to what extent the salary level of teachers working in public educational systems is connected with the trend towards privatization considering that privatization has become nowadays a prominent phenomenon in educational systems around the world. Design/methodology/approach: A secondary…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Public School Teachers, Correlation, Income
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