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Direct linkFrances Free Ramos; Nirali Jani – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
This article examines the ways in which teachers and community-based activists collaborated to advance an anti-privatisation agenda within an urban school district. The article emerges from our respective studies of privatisation in Oakland, one a historical study of the advance of neoliberalism and the other a case study (Merriam 2007,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Change, Urban Areas, Urban Schools
Mok, Ka Ho – Higher Education Quarterly, 2021
In the last few decades, the Chinese higher education system has changed considerably from an elitist model to a massified one with public and "minban"/transnational provisions. Accordingly, this study sets out against the context of higher education expansion initiated in late 1998 to critically examine the major trends of non-state…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, Educational Development
Cone, Lucas; Brøgger, Katja; Berghmans, Mieke; Decuypere, Mathias; Förschler, Annina; Grimaldi, Emiliano; Hartong, Sigrid; Hillman, Thomas; Ideland, Malin; Landri, Paolo; van de Oudeweetering, Karmijn; Player-Koro, Catarina; Bergviken Rensfeldt, Annika; Rönnberg, Linda; Taglietti, Danilo; Vanermen, Lanze – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
With schools and universities closing across Europe, the COVID-19 lockdown left actors in the field of education battling with the unprecedented challenge of finding a meaningful way to keep the wheels of education turning online. The sudden need for digital solutions across the field of education resulted in the emergence of a variety of digital…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Josh Cowen – Harvard Education Press, 2024
In "The Privateers," Josh Cowen lays bare the surprising history of tax-funded school choice programs in the United States and warns of the dangers of education privatization. A former evaluator of state and local school voucher programs, Cowen demonstrates how, as such programs have expanded in the United States, so too has the…
Descriptors: Political Influences, Financial Support, School Choice, Privatization
Zoellner, Don – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2020
In a number of advanced market democracies the role of public technical and vocational education and training institutions has been called into question. This is one result of a singular dominant public policy discourse favouring the provision of public services through contracting out in competitive markets. With the limitations of this default…
Descriptors: Public Education, Vocational Education, Competition, Privatization
Thrupp, Martin; O'Neill, John; Powell, Darren; Butler, Philippa – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2020
This article sets out to demonstrate the considerable extent to which the New Zealand school system has become saturated by private interests, and to explain this development over time. It is the first such overview of the privatisation of schooling in the New Zealand context. The analysis illustrates that the rise of private actors has involved…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Educational Development, Politics of Education
Wagle, Udaya – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2022
The higher education system in Nepal has witnessed major achievements and challenges in the past few decades. This paper takes stock of the way the system has evolved and is now mismanaged, with a particular attention to the overall structure, financial management, quality control, and human resources that are central to fulfilling its societal…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Money Management, Educational Finance
Fontdevila, Clara; Verger, Antoni; Avelar, Marina – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
This paper examines the increasingly diverse range of roles played by the corporate sector in shaping education policy. While a growing body of scholarship has documented the deepening embeddedness of the corporate sector within policy-making processes, empirical research on the strategies mobilized by corporate actors remains unsystematised and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Corporations, Private Sector, Educational Policy
Brent Edwards, D., Jr.; Caravaca, Alejandro; Moschetti, Mauro C. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
This paper draws on the literature on network governance and new philanthropy to characterize and explain the increased involvement of non-State actors in education policymaking in the Dominican Republic. The study reveals, first, how network governance has intensified since 2010 through hybrid public-private spaces of agenda setting, second, how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Networks, Governance, Private Financial Support
Sengupta, Anirban – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2019
In the last two decades, India has witnessed the establishment of a large number of private universities. While these institutions are spread across different parts of the country, one can observe certain locational patterns. Focused particularly on private universities legislated by state governments (as opposed to private deemed universities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Location, Private Colleges, State Regulation
Yilmaz, Eda – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
The present paper aims to highlight the structural problems of the Turkish higher education system by focusing on the problems associated with cost and quality of and access to higher education. These problems manifest themselves in the form of massification, the explosion in the number of public universities without resources and even students,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Problems, Neoliberalism, Educational Quality
Kohe, Geoffery Z.; Aramaki, Ai; Sekine, Masami; Masumoto, Naofumi; Hsu, Leo – Educational Review, 2022
Perennial iterations of Olympic Games, and the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) contractual obligations upon host cities, have prompted development of wide-ranging educational initiatives. Such initiatives draw on the moral idealism of Olympism underpinning the IOC and focus on sport and Physical Education (and other subject areas) as sites…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Values Education, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education
Kingsbury, Ian – Journal of School Choice, 2022
There are competing popular beliefs about whether education reform is a fundamentally bipartisan or conservative movement. Yet, despite the popularity of these prevariling depictions, there has been minimal effort expended toward systematically observing the political beliefs of the key players in the education reform movement. I gauge the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Choice, Political Attitudes, Educational Policy
Download full textSaltman, Kenneth J. – London Review of Education, 2020
This article considers how the development of for-profit artificial intelligence (AI) technologies fosters the privatization of public education and erodes the values and practices of democratic education. The introduction situates the advent of digital technologies in the context of the structural economic and ideological shifts of the past 40…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Public Education, Democracy, Privatization
Miron, Gary; Gulosino, Charisse; Shank, Christopher; Elgeberi, Najat; Davidson, Caryn; Hernandez De Alvarez, Fanny; Jurdzy, Brandy; Larsen, Judith; Pham, Dung; Ruder, Kelly; Urdapilleta, Laura; Urschel, Jessica – Commercialism in Education Research Unit, 2021
The past two decades have marked tremendous growth in the number of public schools that are privately operated and, in a growing number of cases, also privately owned. Known as education management organizations (EMOs), these are private companies or organizations that are rapidly expanding their market shares of the public education sector,…
Descriptors: School Administration, Public Schools, Charter Schools, Nonprofit Organizations
