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The Plague of Privatization: A Futures Analysis of the Zombification of Education
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Fjellman, Anna-Maria; Haley, Aimee – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
The article re-imagines the current developments of Swedish education into a possible future. Historically, education was organized and funded by the state; however, reforms towards privatization in the 1990s implemented school choice, private schools and a tax-financed voucher system with the option of turning profits on education. A new judicial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Educational Change, School Choice
Reshaping the Nordic Education Model in an Era of Efficiency. Changes in the Comprehensive School Project in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden since the Millennium
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Imsen, Gunn; Blossing, Ulf; Moos, Lejf – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The Nordic Education Model was an important part of the social democratic welfare state for many years in the second half of the 20th century. Since the millennium, transnational agencies have drawn education from the realm of politics into a global market place by advocating strategies such as efficiency, competition, decentralisation, governing…
Descriptors: Models, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Efficiency
I Can't Believe What Is Happening to the English Education System
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Downes, Peter – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2011
The author, a former headteacher and now a county councillor, argues that the structural changes to the education system put in place in the first weeks of the new government in the summer of 2010 will exacerbate the gap between the highest and lowest achieving schools, will destabilise the state-funded education system, will expose it to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Commercialization, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Privatisation, Decentralisation and Governance in Education in The Czech Republic, England, France, Germany and Sweden
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Daun, Holger – International Review of Education, 2004
The Czech Republic, England, France, Germany and Sweden differ culturally and economically, but they commonly exhibit general trends of decentralisation in the control of educational processes and outcomes. The present contribution looks at these five European countries as the venue for case studies in educational restructuring as well as…
Descriptors: Privatization, Administrative Organization, Foreign Countries, Governance
Free Choice and Vouchers Transform Schools.
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Miron, Gary – Educational Leadership, 1996
In response to stagnating economic conditions, the Swedish government introduced numerous "reforms," including a voucher scheme for approved independent schools. Since 1992, enrollments in independent schools have increased only 1%, segregation and interschool disparities have increased, and supports for special-needs children have…
Descriptors: Conservatism, Economic Change, Educational Change, Educational Legislation
Transforming the Public Provision of Training: Reorganisation or Privatisation? Long-Term Changes in Sweden and the Netherlands. CEDEFOP Discussion Dossier.
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Brandsma, Jittie; Noonan, Richard; Westphalen, Sven-Age – 2000
The public sector is becoming less concerned with who is providing a given service but more concerned about the quality, reliability, accessibility, and price of the service. In vocational education and training (VET), one consequence of this transformation is that the various public stakeholders involved with funding, purchasing, and providing…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Developed Nations, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change