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L’educació secundària postobligatòria ha esdevingut un requisit necessari, tot i que sovint insuficient, per les aspiracions vitals dels i les joves. Malgrat això, l’evidència sobre la prevalença de l’Abandonament Escolar Prematur (AEP) és molt limitada. Disposar d’un diagnòstic sobre els diferents processos i moments de desvinculació que provoquen...
Despite controversies surrounding faith-based schooling, religious schools continue to play a prominent role in numerous education systems. Nonetheless, empirical research on nonstate religious schools operating in a market context remains limited and fragmented. On the one hand, while religious and cultural studies investigate the evolution of rel...
In February 2024, McKinsey & Company released a new global report on education entitled Spark & Sustain: How All the World’s School Systems Can Improve Learning at Scale. The report aims to provide a toolbox for policymakers and other stakeholders on the policy reforms and governance strategies that can promote significant and sustained improvement...
Over the last years, a broad consensus has been forged regarding the negative impact of market policies on educational equity, especially in terms of school segregation. The preoccupation with the equity effects of educational markets has penetrated the policy agenda of different countries, although it has not crystallized in a univocal reform appr...
Federal and highly decentralized political systems open different spaces to interpret, adapt, and enact international policy trends and ideas within the same territory. Spain, a country with a highly decentralized educational system and contentious territorial politics, is a very suitable case to analyze these dynamics. Spain and its different regi...
Tot i que l’abandonament escolar s’ha situat al centre de l’agenda política i educativa, la no continuïtat escolar que es produeix després de 4t d’ESO ha estat un fenomen poc analitzat a Catalunya, especialment des del punt de vista quantitatiu. Malgrat això, precisament aquesta transició entre l’etapa obligatòria i la postobligatòria (batxillerat...
Este informe refleja el primer diagnóstico de las desigualdades educativas socioespaciales y los desequilibrios en la escolarización en los niveles de infantil, primaria y educación secundaria obligatoria en distintos territorios del País Vasco. Ha sido desarrollado por un equipo del centro de investigación Globalización, Educación y Política Socia...
El modelo de conciertos educativos español se instauró hace casi cuatro décadas con la Ley Orgánica del Derecho a la Educación del año 1985. Desde entonces, España se ha situado entre los países de la OCDE con un mayor peso de la provisión privada subvencionada. A pesar de que el modelo de conciertos se instauró con la intención de equiparar la ofe...
The World Bank has been one of the most important actors influencing global education development policies in the past decades. Beyond its role as an international lender, the World Bank has long enjoyed a dominant position in the definition of the global education agenda. This entry provides a historical analysis of the World Bank's development in...
The privatization of basic education is a global phenomenon growing in all corners of the world. However, education privatization is a multi-faceted process, which crystallizes and evolves in different forms and which eludes simplistic characterizations. This article defines educational privatization and examines its growth in different regions, di...
Pese a la creciente popularidad de las Alianzas Público-Privadas (APP) en el sector educativo, existe un amplio consenso académico sobre su impacto negativo sobre las desigualdades educativas. En los últimos años, organismos internacionales como la OCDE, la UNESCO o el Banco Mundial han mostrado una creciente preocupación por dicho impacto. Sin emb...
Education has been extremely affected by the coronavirus disease crisis, with almost all countries temporarily closing their schools in 2020. After the first stage of the pandemic, in which national governments focused on guaranteeing the academic year’s continuity, key international organizations emphasized the need to adopt structural policy refo...
Open enrolment policies assume that students living in disadvantaged areas can access better schools outside their neighbourhood. However, characteristics of in- dividuals, quality of schooling and neighbourhood characteristics interact in very complex ways to produce heterogeneous patterns of school choice in local educa- tional markets. This arti...
The global expansion of non-state actors as providers of basic education has frequently taken place under the umbrella of some form of public-private partnership (PPP). PPPs have expanded despite an increasing number of studies warning about the possible negative consequences of higher levels of private provision on equity, such as school segregati...
The interest in educational and professional aspirations of students transiting to post-secondary education has gained prominence in academic debates and policy agendas internationally. Political interventions for raising aspirations quite often draw on narrow instrumental and rationalistic assumptions of individual decision-making that, as we will...
The availability of public funding for private schools, in both primary and secondary education, has become a common feature in a number of OECD countries. The expansion of public subsidies for privately owned schools has consequences that go far beyond the involvement of private actors in the provision of education. These include deepening forms o...
This document synthesises the main findings of a rapid review of the literature relating to the effects on education of the COVID-19 pandemic. The objectives of this literature review are twofold. First, to analyse the dimensions and areas of research that have captured the greatest interest in the published academic literature on the impact of the...
Education markets have spread worldwide over the past few decades. Frequently, the expansion of markets in education is presented by their promoters as a means to improve the opportunities of the most socioeconomically disadvantaged students. However, the evidence available shows that market-oriented policies that enhance competition and choice ten...
This article explores the relationship between school choice, student mobility and school segregation in Barcelona. The case of Barcelona is particularly interesting because the school admissions policy combines a particular design of catchment area with a significant level of choice options. We work on students and school register datasets for the...
Mainstream approaches in comparative education have paid more attention to trends in donors’ priorities than to policy processes in recipient countries, overlooking the agency of national governments in the institutional configuration of vocational education and training (VET) in developing contexts. Drawing on constructivist political economy and...
Este artículo analiza la relación entre elección de escuela, movilidad y segregación escolar del alumnado socialmente desfavorecido en Barcelona. Las particularidades del modelo de zonificación escolar de la ciudad, basado en un complejo sistema de elección restringida pero que otorga un amplio número de opciones de proximidad, lo convierten en un...
In recent decades, privatization and market policies in education have expanded globally. Nevertheless, both national and international actors have become increasingly concerned about the negative impact of these policies on social and educational equity, and point out the need for more effective regulations to attenuate market dynamics in educatio...
Education market advocates frequently argue that socioeconomically disadvantaged students could be the main beneficiaries of privatization and market policies. However, the international evidence has shown how privatization and pro-market policies have a negative impact in terms of equity, which particularly affect socioeconomically disadvantaged p...
The importance of skill formation for young people and the challenges of youth unemployment and underemployment are at the forefront of global development agendas. However, there is still an open debate about the most adequate policy frameworks to tackle these societal challenges and, particularly, about the role that the state and the market shoul...
This article presents the findings of research focused on schools’ responses to competitive environments. Using the Chilean education market as a case study, the article analyzes not only the responses developed by schools in different domains in the face of competitive incentives but also their diversity, as well as motivations, rationalities, and...
This article examines the dynamics of the relationship between residential and school segregation in Barcelona. The analysis explores which educational and non-educational drivers foster the school segregation of foreign students between the city's neighbourhoods. The article also analyses to what extent the particularities of Barcelona's admission...
During recent decades, social inequalities have increased in many urban spaces in the globalized world, and education has not been immune to these tendencies. Urban segregation, migration movements and education policies themselves have produced an increasing process of school segregation between the most disadvantaged social groups and the middle...
Human development and rights-based approaches to education have been gaining support among international organisations and development agencies as alternative frameworks to human capital orthodoxy. While these global trends have been well-documented in the international development literature, there is little empirical evidence into what extent, an...
Between 1981 and 1990, Chile began to implement an education
reform based on school choice and a financing system through vouchers. In
theory, the system ensures complete freedom of choice of school by families.
This article attempts to identify the existence of factors that conditioned the enrollment
process in different types of schools existing...
Over the last decades, we have witnessed the centrality of demand-side education policies intended to improve access and conditions of schooling for the poor. Among these policies, voucher systems have played a prominent role as a mechanism to enhance choice and competition. Actors advocating for and boosting such policies, such as the World Bank,...
This paper proposes a framework for analysing the responses of educational providers in competitive contexts. The evidence presented is based on empirical research carried out in one Chilean municipality. The objective of the paper is to analyse the responses developed by the schools with which to position themselves in the Chilean education market...
Episodes of disaster are powerful triggers of education reform. The sense of urgency and bewilderment associated with catastrophic situations (including natural disaster or armed conflicts) prove a seizable opportunity for education reform advocates, rendering other stakeholders more receptive to drastic interventions. In particular, catastrophic s...
Over the last two decades, education privatization has become a widespread phenomenon, affecting most education systems and giving place to a consistent increase in private school enrolment globally. However, far from being a monolithic phenomenon, privatization advances through a variety of context-sensitive policy processes that translate into mu...
Although the literature on school choice rationalities is extensive, different authors interpret the processes of school choice for poor families in different ways. Positions vary between those that consider that poor families have the same capacity to choose than middle class families and those that value structural factors as constraints for choi...
Como resultado da crise econômica de 2008, a taxa de desemprego na Espanha tem aumentado significativamente, especialmente entre os jovens. Neste contexto, a formação profissional tem sido considerada imprescindível para melhorar a empregabilidade das pessoas, auxiliando-as a melhor se inserirem no mercado de trabalho. Este artigo analisa a relação...
Over the last two decades, education privatization has taken on a global dimension. Countries with very different political and economical circumstances have come to adopt a variety of pro-private sector policies in education. The purpose of this article is to explore why and how such policies are being disseminated worldwide. From a political econ...
The superiority of market mechanisms in educational provision is a premise that has received renewed emphasis under the regime of public-private partnerships (PPPs). The central idea of PPPs—enthusiastically embraced by a range of international organizations, development agencies and scholars—is grounded in the assumption that competition between p...
El articulo cuestiona las asunciones de la teoria de la eleccion publica en educacion mediante el analisis del funcionamiento de los mecanismos de mercado y de las dinamicas de oferta y demanda educativa en Chile – el pais del mundo que ha adoptado politicas de cuasi-mercado educativo por un periodo mas largo y a mayor escala. En terminos analitico...
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17227/01203916.70rce47.78 Over the last two decades, education privatization has taken on a global dimension. Countries with very different political and economical circumstances have come to adopt a variety of pro-private sector policies in education. The purpose of this article is to explore why and how such policies are...
This article focuses on analysing the effect of educational differentiation policies of OECD educational systems on socioeconomically disadvantaged students, based on data from PISA 2009. The analysis is conducted on the basis of a definition of two subgroups of disadvantaged students: those that achieve high scores, and those obtaining scores that...
Between 1981 and 1990, Chile began to implement an education reform based on school choice and a financing system through vouchers. In theory, the system ensures complete freedom of choice of school by families. This paper attempts to identify the existence of factors that conditioned the enrolment process in the different types of schools existing...
Resumen En 1988 Chile introdujo un ambicioso sistema de vouchers convirtiéndose en uno de los países con una mayor trayectoria en la implementación de políticas de cuasi-mercado en América Latina, y en uno de los pocos del mundo que utiliza este modo de financiación a gran escala. Esta política se caracteriza por una amplia libertad de elección de...
Las desigualdades educativas continúan formando parte del debate político y académico en los países europeos. Los datos de la última edición del la evaluación internacional PISA brindan una nueva oportunidad para analizar la situación de los sistemas educativos en relación con la igualdad de oportunidades. El artículo se estructura en torno a tres...
Descomposición del efecto inmigrante en el rendimiento académico en Cataluña según la zona origen
