Editorial: Modernisation or Marketisation?
In: Soundings: a journal of politics and culture, Heft 22, S. 7-11
ISSN: 1362-6620
In: Soundings: a journal of politics and culture, Heft 22, S. 7-11
ISSN: 1362-6620
Fearful symmetry? : higher education and the logic of the market / Peter John and Joelle Fanghanel -- Private commodities and public goods : markets and values in higher education / Peter Scott -- Paying the price of expansion : why more for undergraduates in England means less for everyone / Helen Carasso and William Locke -- Choice in the learning market : tokenistic ritual or democratic education? / Rajani Naidoo -- Marketing and marketisation : what went wrong, and how we can put it right? / Rob Cuthbert -- Scotland and the higher education market / Tony Bruce -- Contractualising the student experience through university charters / Joanna Williams -- Uk universities as a single entity : striking a balance between public and private needs / Bernard Longden -- Some considerations on higher education as a "post-experience good" / Morgan White -- The "unravelling" of English higher education / Patrick Ainley -- Regulating risk in the higher education state: implications for policy and research / Roger King -- How the Home Office became a regulator of higher education in England / Geoffrey Alderman -- Making a difference : the roles of markets and the roles of quality assurance regimes / John Brennan -- Shifting perspectives on research and teaching relationships : a view from Australia / Angela Brew -- Developing criticality in learning and teaching through pedagogical action research / Lin Norton -- Reshaping understandings, practices and policies to enhance the links between teaching and research / Alan Jenkins and Mick Healey -- Engaging the international scholarly and policy community through active dialogue on the research-teaching nexus / Vaneeta D'Andrea -- A critical reflection on leadership in higher education / Robin Middlehurst -- Reflections on evidence and higher education policy / Gareth Williams -- Academic quality and academic responsibility: a critical reflection on collegial governance / David D. Dill -- Policy, what policy? : considering the university in the twenty-first century / Ronald Barnett -- Higher education and the market : thoughts, themes, threads / Joelle Fanghanel and Peter John
This paper considers criminal justice policy in England and Wales since the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) agenda implemented in 2013. TR rested on the proposition that probation services are best provided in a market context. Motivated by profit and extrinsic rewards, private sector consortia, and their employees, theoretically act efficiently to deter and rehabilitate offenders from crime. However, there is evidence that marketisation itself undermines the prospects of efficient social policy. Over-reliance on markets may undermine pro-social norms through emphasising individualism and extrinsic returns. Outsourcing is also associated with increasing inequality, which may also undermine pro-social norms. Further, the emphasis placed on self-interest in framing market-based incentive structures is associated with declining public welfare support for the economically marginalised and increased use of relatively expensive incarceration. In application, TR proved unsustainable. The innovation involves increasing reliance on the para-state sector, in which private profits rely on public payment. However, the profits expected under TR fell short of expectations, in part due to changes in wider society. The early cancellation of TR contracts highlights the inflexible nature of such public sector procurement. On the basis of theory and practice, we suggest a reconsideration of the government's position on probation and set out reasonable steps to address shortcomings in the current system.
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In: Third world quarterly, Band 38, Heft 7, S. 1639-1654
ISSN: 0143-6597
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In: Third world quarterly, Band 38, Heft 7, S. 1639-1654
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Democracy & nature: the international journal of inclusive democracy ; D & N, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 275-310
ISSN: 1085-5661, 1045-7224
In: International journal of public sector management: IJPSM, Band 28, Heft 4/5, S. 307-321
ISSN: 0951-3558
This is a study of changes in Chinese kindergarten education in the era of the post-Mao four modernisations. Based on fieldwork carried out in China in 1997, this thesis examined the changes of Chinese kindergarten education at two levels — changes in system (structural change) and changes in educational activities (curriculum and ideological change), especially for the period of the 1990s. Changes are described and discussed in a historical context, in which both changes in policy and in practice are examined. Changes in education are closely linked to the social, political, economic and cultural context. The content, process and outcomes of reform in early childhood education in China have been affected by the national goals of reform, the social context of early educational institutions, their organizational characteristics, family structure, family policy, and the specific professional culture of teaching and learning. Recent structural reforms in early childhood education have been shaped by the foremost task of the nation - economic development. The previous welfare model of kindergarten, which was regarded as one of the outcomes of a socialist system, is being transformed into a new market competitive model to meet a political demand for the marketisation of society. The curricula of early educational program, teachers' attitudes to children, and their professional activities, therefore, have been re-shaped according to new ideas about the needs and abilities of children, new conceptions of child development and, not least, the new modernisation "knowledge" that gained ascendancy in China during the 1990s. ; digitalisering@umu
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In: International Journal of Public Sector Management, Band 28, Heft 4/5, S. 307-321
In: Markets, Rights and Power in Australian Social Policy, Gabrielle Meagher and Sue Goodwin, eds., University of Sydney Press, 2013
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In: Administration: Journal of the Institute of Public Administration of Ireland, Band 69, Heft 2, S. 19-42
ISSN: 2449-9471
AbstractSince the financial crisis, Ireland's welfare state has been reorientated around a regulatory, 'work-first' activation model. Claimants now face penalty rates for non-compliance with activation requirements that have been significantly extended since 2009. Alongside these formal policy reforms, the organisations delivering Public Employment Services, and the modes by which they are commissioned, have also been reconfigured through a series of New Public Management style governance reforms, including, most notably, the creation of a quasi-market for employment services (JobPath) in 2015. This article addresses the intersection between activation and quasi-marketisation, positioning the latter as a form of 'double activation' that reshapes not onlyhowbut alsowhatpolicies are enacted at the street level. It unpacks their shared logics and mutual commitment to governing agents at a distance through a behavioural public policy orientation, and reflects on the extent to which marketisation is capable of producing lower-cost but more responsive employment services.
In: Social policy and administration, Band 57, Heft 5, S. 565-579
ISSN: 1467-9515
AbstractThis article explores the rationalities and mechanisms of outsourcing public employment service activation casework. We draw on textual and documentary data from minutes of meetings and inspection reports between the Irish Government and two market providers, over 7 years, to better understand how activation through marketisation unfolds in practice. We identify how the outsourcing contract unleashing a process of ignorancing (agnotology), where the Government wilfully and strategically seeks to overwrite existing forms of street‐level bureaucratic knowledge and practice. Our analysis reveals how activation through marketisation unfolds, first as strategic ignorance, then as involuntary ignorance as Government officials and contractors become bound by the contract until finally, the contract generates naturalised ignorance–new caseworkers without the basic knowledge, education, and training to support unemployed people. In this way, we offer a deeper understanding of the administration of activation through marketisation policies.
In: Policy & politics: advancing knowledge in public and social policy, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 299-316
ISSN: 0305-5736
In: Routledge frontiers of criminal justice