The significance of privatization and choice for education -- Should government buy or make education? -- Efficiency issues in educational perspective -- Lessons from the OEO fiasco -- Educational choice as a means to educational improvement -- Competition under voucher plans -- Noneducational arguments for vouchers -- The politics of choice -- Education for profit : big business or cottage industry? -- Thinking the unthinkable : load shedding -- Ethical and policy issues in education for profit.