Evaluating European Education Policy-Making: Privatization, Networks and the European Commission

210 Pages·2015·1.119 MB·English

by  Manuel Souto-Otero

Evaluating European Education Policy-Making
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Evaluating European
Education Policy-Making
Privatization, Networks and the
European Commission
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Manuel Souto-Otero
UniversityofBath,UK
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Contents
ListofTablesandFigures ix
NotesonContributors x
ListofAbbreviations xiii
1 EuropeanPolicy-MakinginEducationandTraining:
BetweenInstitutionalLegitimizationandPolicy
Privatization 1
ManuelSouto-Otero
2 Competition,GovernanceandGlobalEducationPolicy 25
AntonioOlmedoandStephenJ.Ball
3 BreakingDowntheLearningSilos:WhatRolefor
EmployersandthePrivateSectorinEducationand
Learning? 53
JacobDencik
4 TheIncreasingNeedforPrivateActorsinPolicy-Making
attheEuropeanCommission 71
CynthiaM.H.Villalba
5 ‘Allin’?PatternsofParticipationinEUEducationPolicy 92
ÅseGornitzka
6 TheRoleofPrivateCompaniesinSupportingEuropean
PolicyintheFieldofEducationandTraining 124
DanielaUliˇcná
7 HEExpertsandCommissionedResearch:Between
Stability,FragilityandAmbiguity? 146
JeroenHuisman
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viii Contents
8 Conclusions:WhoBenefitsfromEUPolicy-Makingin
Education?TheEuropeanCommissionandthe
PrivatizationofEducationPolicy 166
ManuelSouto-Otero
Index 183
Tables and Figures
Tables
5.1 AttitudesamongEuropeanstowardsdecision-making
atthenationalversustheEuropeanlevelonpolicy
issues.Eurobarometer2010 104
5.2 Theconfigurationofexpertgroupsineducationand
neighbouringpolicyareas.Datafrom2007,2009and
2013 107
5.3 Typesofparticipantpresentinexpertgroupsunder
DGEACcomparedwithDGRTD,DGENTRandall
expert-groupDGs(percentageoftotalnumberof
expertgroupsundereachDG),2007 108
5.4 Stakeholderassociationsparticipatinginworking
groups,OMCeducation,2003 116
6.1 Overviewoffundingforpolicyreformpertypeof
activity 125
Figures
3.1 Frameworkoflifelonglearning 62
5.1 ParticipantsinOMCeducationTWGsaccordingto
organizationalaffiliation 114
6.1 ShareofthebudgetforEACanalyticaland
consultancyactivitiesallocatedtodifferenttypesof
organizationintheperiod2009–2013 132
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