Public-Private Partnership in Education: Academy Schools in England

BUYRUK H.

AMME IDARESI DERGISI, vol.51, no.1, pp.101-131, 2018 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 51 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2018
  • Journal Name: AMME IDARESI DERGISI
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.101-131
  • Keywords: Public private partnership, educational services, England, academies, capital accumulation, SYSTEM, POLICY
  • Ankara University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

The discourse that the public-private partnership (PPP) model can play an important role for improving the quality of education is especially circulated by the role of global actors such as the OECD and the World Bank. However, the PPP model is criticized due to the fact that it allows the creation of new valorization areas for the capital whose investment area is increasingly narrowing, and functions as a 'Trojan horse' that hides the role of the state in the capital accumulation process. The PPP model has been tried and implemented in industrialized countries such as the UK, which is one of the countries that play a pioneering role in neo-liberal policies, educational services have become one of the implementation areas. This study first carries out a debate about PPP and its applications in education, then it evaluates academies as a PPP model by describing education system of England with the main lines. In this way, we have tried to find out how the PPP, widely heard in Turkey recently too, developed in English education system and the changes it creates.