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Structural Reforms and Business Ethos in Universities under Estonia's Post-2008 Austerity Regime
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Aidnik, Martin – Policy Futures in Education, 2020
The year 2018 marked the 10th anniversary of the global economic crisis of 2008. In Europe, austerity has been a constant ever since the crisis. This article critically engages with recent institutional and ideological developments in the small Baltic state of Estonia. The article investigates the structural reforms and prevailing ideology in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Governance, Universities
Governing and Commercialising Early Childhood Education: Profiting from the International Early Learning and Well-Being Study (IELS)?
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Roberts-Holmes, Guy – Policy Futures in Education, 2019
This article examines why the government in England has signed the country up to taking part in the OECD's new international assessment known as The International Early Learning and Well-being Study (IELS). The article highlights the role of IELS as a technology of neoliberal governance. Looking forward it considers how IELS may open up new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, International Assessment, Commercialization
Education Policy, Globalization, Commercialization: An Interview with Bob Lingard by David Hursh
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Hursh, David – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
In this interview with David Hursh, Bob Lingard comments on his current and/or recently completed research projects in respect to new modes of global governance in schooling and the complementarity between international large scale assessments and national testing. He also looks at a project that, in conjunction with school leaders, teachers,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Interviews, Commercialization, Foreign Countries
The Neoliberalization of Higher Education in England: An Alternative is Possible*
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Maisuria, Alpesh; Cole, Mike – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
In this article, we provide a critical explanation and critique of neoliberalism. We attempt an innovative focus ranging from the wider contemporary political and ideological shifts, to the way in which neoliberal policy specifically influences higher education and the consequences thereof. We follow a narrative logic in three parts where we first…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Criticism
Commodification of Teacher Professionalism
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Werler, Tobias – Policy Futures in Education, 2016
This paper investigates the hypothesis that teacher education in European welfare states is commodified due to its governance by neoliberal policy making. The starting point for the analysis is a discussion of the relationship between the welfare state and teacher professionalism. For this purpose, the concept of the ill-defined problem is…
Descriptors: Commercialization, Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Professionalism
Zombie Graduates Driven by Rickshaw Faculty--A Qualitative Case Study: Private Universities in Urban Bangladesh
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Husain, Matt M.; Osswald, Karina – Policy Futures in Education, 2016
Bangladesh's post-secondary education has become a hunting ground for local economic conglomerates and their transnational allies. Applying a holistic lens helps to understand the factors and short-term effects of blindly applying neo-liberal induced deregulation and privatization that constructed a mushrooming "McDonaldization" culture…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Private Colleges