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A Neoliberal Grammar of Schooling? How a Progressive Charter School Moved toward Market Values
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Castillo, Elise – American Journal of Education, 2020
Although initially ideologically diverse, the charter school movement has become increasingly aligned with neoliberal ideology, which assumes that public services, including education, are improved through market forces, such as accountability, competition, efficiency, and managerialism. Yet little is known about how leaders of ideologically…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Ideology, Progressive Education, Charter Schools
Entrepreneurial Universities in ASEAN Nations: Insights from Policy Perspective
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Chao, Roger Y., Jr. – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2018
The combination of neo-liberalism and the massification of higher education combined with the diminished public funds for higher education contributed to the rise of academic capitalism and entrepreneurship across higher education systems and institutions across the world. With the focus on human capital development and its contribution to…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Universities, Geographic Regions, International Organizations
Response to John Merrifield's Comment, "Can We Reasonably Assess 'Productivity of Market-Based Educational Reforms'?"
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Egalite, Anna J. – Journal of School Choice, 2013
John Merrifield (in this issue) raises three important observations regarding this review of the literature on the competition effects of school vouchers. The first is an acknowledgment of the limited nature of current school choice markets in the United States. Merrifield's second observation is that the potential responses to competition…
Descriptors: Commercialization, Educational Vouchers, School Choice, Enrollment
Institutional Changes and the Expansion of Flexible Forms of Employment in Higher Education: The Case of Greek Universities
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Nikolaidis, Evangelos; Maroudas, Leonidas – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2013
Extensive institutional changes and restructuring are taking place in higher education within the context of the new managerialism's ideological principles and administrative practices aimed at the fulfilment of the goals of the neoliberal political dominance. These changes involve the massification of universities, along with the reduction of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Organizational Change, Commercialization
Quality Assurance Challenges and Opportunities Faced by Private Universities in Zimbabwe
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Garwe, Evelyn Chiyevo – Journal of Case Studies in Education, 2014
The study sought to provide an understanding of the quality assurance challenges and opportunities faced by private universities in Zimbabwe. The study analyzed the factors determining provision of quality higher education in private universities and the resultant effects of failing to achieve the minimum acceptable standards. The author employed…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Private Colleges, Barriers, Educational Opportunities
The Effect of Work Placements on the Academic Performance of Chinese Students in UK Higher Education
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Crawford, Ian; Wang, Zhiqi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
The main controversy as a result of the commercialisation of international education markets is that international students especially those from China are unable to perform as well as UK students in UK universities. So far, research has yet to identify the influence of placements on the academic performance of Chinese students from entry to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Job Placement