World Yearbook of Education 2016

Antoni Verger is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.Christopher Lubienski is Professor of Education Policy at the University of Illinois, and a fellow with the National Education Policy Center.Gita Steiner-Khamsi, PhD, is Professor of International andComparative Education and Chair of the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University.

"The volume provides a useful and timely overview of the growing impact of the global education industry on education today, offering an array of case studies and analyzing a variety of actors... The volume is useful to graduate students and researchers in educational policy and comparative and international education, and to political and social scientists looking to develop a comprehensive understanding of the growing involvement of private actors, institutions, and business logics in the field of education."— Tyler Hook, Comparative Education Review

• Introduction 1. The Emergence and Structuring of the Global Education Industry: Towards an Analytical Framework Part I: Shaping education agendas 2. The Role of the Gates Foundation and the Philanthropic Sector in Shaping the Emerging Education Market: Lessons from the US on Privatization of Schools and Education Governance 3. Philanthropic Governance: Charitable Companies, the Commercialisation of Education and That Thing Called ‘Democracy’ 4. Private authority or ambiguity? The evolving role of corporations and foundations in the Global Partnership for Education 5. Entrepreneurial Influence in Brazilian Education Policies: The Case of Todos Pela Educação 6. Brand Aid Funding for Educating Public Humanitarians Part II: Selling school improvement 7. Corporate Social Responsibility and Neo-social Accountability in Education: The Case of Pearson plc. 8. Knowledge production and the rise of consultocracy in education policymaking in England 9. Donors, Private Actors and Contracts: Recasting the Making and Ownership of Education Policy in Pakistan 10. Teach for All, Public-Private Partnerships, and the Erosion of the Public in Education 11. Professional Consultancy and Global Higher Education: The Case of Branding of Academia Part III: New market niches 12. Financial Markets and Investment in Education 13. Unbundling the University and Making Higher Education Markets 14. Education outside the public limelight: The ‘parallel universe’ of ICT certifiers 15. Questioning the Global Scaling-up of Low-fee Private Schooling: The Nexus between Business, Philanthropy and PPPs 16. Economy, Business, and First Class: The Implications of For-Profit Education Provision in the UAE