The State, Markets and Higher Education Reform in Botswana

Autor/inn/en	Tabulawa, Richard; Polelo, Mino; Silas, Onalenna
Titel	The State, Markets and Higher Education Reform in Botswana
Quelle	In: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 11 (2013) 1, S.108-135 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7724
DOI	10.1080/14767724.2012.750469
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Public Health; Governance; Neoliberalism; Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Public Policy; State Action; Commercialization; Case Studies; Labor Force Development; Knowledge Economy; Global Approach; Criticism; Botswana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Gesundheitswesen; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Ausland; Bildungsreform; Öffentliche Ordnung; Staatliche Intervention; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Arbeitskräftebestand; Knowledge society; Economy; Wissensgesellschaft; Wirtschaft; Globales Denken; Kritik
Abstract	Market forces are being introduced in public spheres such as higher education and public health, which hitherto were closed to such forces. Ironically, it is the state that is responsible for this process of marketisation. Some see this state action as leading to a growing influence of the state in public policy while others see an attenuation of its role. Critiquing this market-state incompatibility thesis from a geo-spatial perspective on globalisation, this paper calls for an articulation of state-market relations that emphasises their interpenetration. Using Botswana as a case study, the paper argues that although on-going tertiary education reforms in the country are characterised by the state's promotion of market forces this does not mean that the state is retreating, leaving the sub-sector to the vagaries of the market. Contrarily, the state is employing marketisation to reform the sub-sector so that it is responsive to labour and skills demands of an economy aspiring to be knowledge-based. (Contains 6 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10