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Yun You; Tae-Hee Choi – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
This paper investigates and compares the policy trajectories of two halted privatisation reforms -- autonomous private high schools in South Korea (2002-2019) and converted schools in China (1992-2008). The two reforms, ambitiously announced, were put under scrutiny and ultimately halted, when the public discontent about education inequalities was…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Public Schools, Comparative Education, Private Schools
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Stephanie Allais – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
This paper explores the contrast between the policy vision for public technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges in South Africa, and governance and funding models that have shaped institutional forms and functioning over time. Policy aspires for TVET colleges to play a role in social inclusion and local economic development.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, Governance, Financial Support
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Holmqvist, Diana; Fejes, Andreas; Nylander, Erik – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
Privatisation of public education is becoming more and more common across the world. As much current research presupposes causal links between the degree of privatisation and issues of competition and student's free choice, we see a need for research on other ways of organising the presence of private providers in public education. In this…
Descriptors: Privatization, Public Education, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries
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Hogan, Anna; Thompson, Greg; Mockler, Nicole – Comparative Education, 2022
In Anglophone countries, narratives of public schooling tend to emphasise generic hopes about schooling as central to the idea of a public good, including fostering community, delivering equality and protecting broad notions of democracy. However, as public systems become more open to privatised logics, these hopes sit alongside fears for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Privatization, Educational Policy
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Borbély-Pecze, T. B.; Hloušková, L.; Šprlák, T. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2022
This comparative study traces the foundation and development of vocational and career guidance services in three Central and Eastern European countries in the light of the contextually bound factors of this region. Since the beginning of the 20th century, political transitions and changes in the ruling structures in these countries were so…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions
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Gandhi, Vishakha; Ahir, Kinjal – Higher Education Forum, 2022
The trend towards privatization of higher education has been a dominant feature in India, particularly during the decade 2010-20. The main research question enquired in the current research is regarding the evolution of privatization in India during the period 2010 to 2020 and its consequences for access to higher education in India. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
Edwards, D. Brent, Jr.; Moschetti, Mauro C.; Caravaca, Alejandro – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2022
This text explores how the dynamics of globalization and privatization have influenced State policy and impacted education reform in Honduras. It makes the argument that understanding education reform in post-colonial contexts requires that scholars go beyond a surface-level description of such trends as privatization to consider, in addition, the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Postcolonialism, Guidelines, Privatization
Gayle S. Cosby – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Neoliberalism is a pro-capitalist ideology that cycles money and power to the elite class by deregulating or privatizing the public sphere and is fueled by economic exploitation and oppression. This dissertation examines the neoliberal construct at work in the privatization of Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) from an ethnographic lens using the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Boards of Education, Ethnography, Neoliberalism
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Bellei, Cristián; Munoz, Gonzalo – Journal of Educational Change, 2023
An important dimension of international comparative analysis in education is studying the models of regulation that structure the way in which educational provision is organized. The specialized literature has defined three predominant regulatory models: the traditional bureaucratic professional model, the quasi-market model inspired by neoliberal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Socioeconomic Status, Access to Education
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Chenyi Zhao – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
This paper examines the "Double Reduction" policy issued by the Chinese government in 2021 by using a Critical Discourse Problematization Framework (CDPF) that combines Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and what's the problem represented to be (WPR) approach. The study points out that the changing discourse of equality and equity in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Policy
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Thrupp, Martin; Powell, Darren; O'Neill, John; Chernoff, Sandor; Seppänen, Piia – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
This article seeks to describe a range of enablers of, and constraints on, private actors in New Zealand schooling, using scholarly, polity and mass media sources. It focuses particularly on the decades since the educational reforms of the 4th Labour Government in the 1980s. The article begins by providing a brief background on educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Educational Change, Governance
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Morris, Paul; Park, Choah; Auld, Euan – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
Framed by the mantra of 'Building back Better' (BBB) the COVID-19 Pandemic has inspired myriad proposals to transform education systems for the future. We interrogate the phrase 'building back better', focusing on its origins and application within crisis narratives. We analyse responses to the pandemic published by influential global agencies…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society)
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Regmi, Kapil Dev – International Review of Education, 2022
In 2015, the United Nations (UN) declared 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets to be achieved by 2030, but the COVID-19 pandemic has stalled the world's progress in pursuing them. This article explores how the pandemic has impacted the public health and education sectors of the world's poorest 46 countries, identified by the UN…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Sustainable Development, Objectives
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María Ivana Soler; Sebastián Correa-Otto – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2025
We study the role of the State in education through the most significant government periods in Argentina in the last 50 years. We use a sociocultural approach, contemplating the historical development of educational policies in the country, exploring conceptual frameworks applicable in the investigation of the State, privatization and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Role, Global Approach, Privatization
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Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2025
This paper explores the complex relationship between higher education and the concept of public goods in Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, with a particular focus on Chile. Through an extensive literature review, the study examines the evolving meanings of public, public/common/global goods in Spanish culture in the context of higher…
Descriptors: State Universities, Spanish Speaking, School Community Relationship, Social Responsibility
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