Ball: More and more areas of education are Pollack: this flow of sector now leave to join the
now subject to business practices and personnel lets companies education business sector. The
financial logistics, brought and sold like buy "insider knowledge" to business's bid for contracts to
assets. Makes education only for profit. win contracts, side-stepping provide services to schools.
local authority democracy
Blurring the
Hall (Marxist): sees academies public/private
as handing over public services Education as a boundary
to private capitalists commodity Privatisation
Private sectors are
Nation-states are becoming The The cola-isation indirectly in schools
less important in policymaking, globalization of of schools e.g., through vending
which is shifting to a global education Private sector involvement machines on premises
level which is privatised policy this is the "cola-
pose little benefit to the
isation" of school
schools and pupils
Buckingham and Many education
Scanlon: The Uk's 4 service industries Molnar: private companies
leading software are foreign-owned Beder: Uk families spent
target schools as they
companies are owned by £110,000 in Tesco's in
carry enormous goodwill
global multinational return for a single
Ball: some Pearson GCSE and can legitimize anything
companies (Mattel, computer for schools
exam answers are now within them
Disney, Hambro and
marked in Sydney and Iowa
Vivendi)