Auctioning out education

On exogenous privatisation through public procurement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21725933
AutoresDiana Holmqvist (0000-0002-9848-5098, Linköping University, autor de correspondencia), Andreas Fejes (0000-0002-9916-8705, Linköping University), Erik Nylander (0000-0003-3241-0189, Linköping University)
Año2021
Volumen20
Número1
Páginas102-117
Fecha de publicación2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Educational Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1474-9041 • E-ISSN: 2165-8714
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1474904120953281
OpenAlexW3083400951
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas27

Privatisation of public education is becoming more and more common across the world. As much current research presupposes causal links between the degree of privatisation and issues of competition and student’s free choice, we see a need for research on other ways of organising the presence of private providers in public education. In this article, we study how two Swedish municipalities use public procurement to contract private providers and organise adult education. Interestingly, we find that competition is more heavily at play in the municipality that outsources half of its adult education, than in the municipality that outsources all adult education. We view these findings as vital for understanding how education is being outsourced to private providers and for furthering the discussion on the consequences of the ongoing privatisation of education

Business · Economic growth · Economics · Higher education · Political science · Private education · Private sector · Procurement · Public relations · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration · School Choice and Performance · Marketing