Ideas and consequences of market principles in education:The Swedish case in an international perspective
A symposium on the themes: consequences of school choice for the efficiency and equity of schooling and the consequences of market principles for systems of governance, accountability and the teaching professions.Since the 1980s many educational systems throughout the world have been transformed through decentralization and deregulation of decision making and organization of schooling. The Swedish educational system was in the late 1980s one of the most centralized school systems in the world, but after a series of changes it had by the mid 1990s been transformed into one of the most
