ABSTRACT
The marketisation of the school system has not been done in a vacuum, it is to a large extent a product of a larger international change recognised by decentralisation, choice and competition that began in the 1970s.The chapter focus on how the OECD has come to be an important actor in the transnational discussions regarding education policy. A discussion that is related to the development of the Swedish school system at the beginning of the 1990s. The chapter also includes a brief overview of the development in Chile and New Zealand that has also carried out long, ongoing adjustments towards the marketisation of the education systems and similarly to Sweden have problems with a growing system of segregation in schools. At the end of the chapter, I reconnect with the fact that today the OECD is criticising Sweden for having gone too far in their quest for marketisation.
