The impossibility of capitalist markets in higher education

For more than two decades, governments around the world, led by the English-speaking polities, have moved higher education systems closer to the forms of textbook economic markets. Reforms include corporatisation, competitive funding, student charges, output formats and performance reporting. But, n...

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Vydané v:Journal of education policy Ročník 28; číslo 3; s. 353 - 370
Hlavný autor: Marginson, Simon
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Routledge 01.05.2013
Predmet:
academic capitalism
Capitalism
Colleges and universities
Commercialization
Communication
Competition
Consumers
Economic Factors
Education
Educational Change
Educational economics
Educational Finance
Educational markets
Educational policy
Entrepreneurship
Foreign Countries
Health insurance
Higher Education
market reform
Market share
Marketing
Markets
Neoliberalism
Politics of Education
Postsecondary education
Privatization
Profits
public good
Public services
Reputation
Social Systems
Student Recruitment
Students
Textbooks
Tuition
United Kingdom
Universities
Vocational education
United Kingdom
ISSN:0268-0939, 1464-5106
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Shrnutí:For more than two decades, governments around the world, led by the English-speaking polities, have moved higher education systems closer to the forms of textbook economic markets. Reforms include corporatisation, competitive funding, student charges, output formats and performance reporting. But, no country has established a bona fide economic market in the first-degree education of domestic students. No research university is driven by shareholders, profit, market share, allocative efficiency or the commodity form. There is commercial tuition only in parts of vocational training and international education. While intensified competition, entrepreneurship and consumer talk are pervasive in higher education, capitalism is not very important. At the most, there are regulated quasi-markets, as in post-Browne UK. This differs from the experience of privatisation and commercialisation of transport, communications, broadcasting and health insurance in many nations. The article argues that bona fide market reform in higher education is constrained by intrinsic limits specific to the sector (public goods, status competition), and political factors associated with those limits. This suggests that market reform is utopian, and the abstract ideal is sustained for exogenous policy reasons (e.g. fiscal reduction, state control, ordering of contents). But, if capitalist markets are clearly unachievable, a more authentic modernisation agenda is needed.
Bibliografia:Journal of Education Policy; v.28 n.3 p.353-370; May 2013
Refereed article. Includes bibliographical references.
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ISSN:0268-0939
1464-5106
DOI:10.1080/02680939.2012.747109