World Bank Education Policy: Do the neoliberal critiques still apply? (Politique de la Banque mondiale en matière d’éducation : Les critiques à l’égard de l’influence néolibérale s’appliquent-elles encore ?)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT. Throughout much of the 1990s, the overriding critique of the World Bank was placed on its neoliberal mandate, reflected in its various education measures. However, recently the Bank seems to have taken a notable shift away from this ideological stance in its rhetoric and initiatives. This paper attempts to ascertain the degree to which the neoliberal influence remains present in World Bank education policy, pointing to several contradictory stances presented in its major documents. Politique de la Banque mondiale en matiere d’education : Les critiques a l’egard de l’influence neoliberale s’appliquent-elles encore? RESUME. Pendant une grande partie des annees 90, la critique preponderante de la Banque mondiale portait sur son mandat neoliberal qui se refletait dans diverses mesures en matiere d’education. Toutefois, recemment la Banque semble s’etre distanciee remarquablement de cette position ideologique dans sa rhetorique et ses initiatives. Ce memoire vise a etablir le degre auquel l’influence neoliberale demeure presente dans la politique de la Banque mondiale en matiere d’education, en indiquant plusieurs positions contradictoires presentees dans ses documents d’importance.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".