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    Posted by Mary on August 12, 2020, 2:54 pm

    The heads of the different private companies involved in the system keep appearing on the news channels to give their views on the exam fiasco. They do not speak out with a united voice and you get the feeling that some of them do not even understand the system. What a carve up it was.

    https://revisesociology.com/2016/05/16/privatisation-education-neoliberalism/

    Health and education are commodities.

    I see that Pearson's own
    Edexcel who operate the exam system. Google and Apple are poised apparently to enter in.

    'Privatising schools: in whose interest?
    GAWAIN LITTLE on the release of a shocking new report today which explores the growth of the private education sector internationally and its dirty tentacles reaching into Britain's schools'
    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/privatising-schools-whose-interest

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    • Privatising state education - Mary August 12, 2020, 2:54 pm