“Marketisation of schools, colleges and universities was pretty well accomplished under New Labour. They got teachers, lecturers and researchers competing for students, training contracts and research funding on measures of ‘quality’, verified by increasingly arbitrary measurement through Ofsted, further education (FE) and higher education (HE) quality controllers. Now David Willetts’ white paper on higher education introduces full-blown privatisation with naked price competition for ‘customer driven’ education and training …” (more)
[Patrick Ainley and Martin Allen, Guardian, 29 June]