PROFIT MOTIVE IN EDUCATION by James Stanfield (Editor) ( 9780255366465 )

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PROFIT MOTIVE IN EDUCATION
CONTINUING THE REVOLUTION

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James Stanfield (Editor)

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INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS

Pub. date:

1 May, 2012

Pages:

144

Synopsis:

The UK government in common with the governments of many Western countries is in the midst of implementing policies to reform education. However, the government has, as a matter of principle, decided that profit-making schools cannot provide state-funded education even if they would lead to substantial improvements in quality. This monograph makes the case for widespread acceptance of the profit motive in education. It does so not by presenting statistics that demonstrate that profit-making organisations could drive up quality there is already a substantial literatureon this. Instead, the authors show how profit-making organisations could create an entirely new dynamic of entrepreneurship and innovation. As well as improving quality and reducing costs within existing models, such an approach could lead to the development of completely new ways ofproviding education. The authors of this monograph have a range of international experience. Many of them have run profit-making schools in countries more accepting of the profit motive than the UK, suchas Sweden. Others have struggled against the odds to participate in education reform programmes in the UK.Overall, this collection makes an important contribution to the international debate about education reform

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