The document discusses several topics related to contracting, privatization, commercialization, and charging in the United Kingdom. It outlines key aspects of employment contracts in the UK, including fixed-term contracts, trial periods, and notice periods. It also discusses how governments look to partner with the private sector to develop infrastructure and provide services due to scarce public resources and increasing demands. Finally, it gives the example of commercialization in education in the UK and how trade has been pivotal to the UK economy, with exports and imports growing and services industries becoming more prominent.

1. Contracting outservices (United Kingdom)
• employment contract in the UK is an “open-ended” contract which can be terminated on notice
• The most common employment relationship is that of full time permanent employment.
• Fixed-term/Open-ended Contracts
- contracted to work for a fixed period only or to perform a particular task
Trial Period
Employment contracts often provide that the employee will undergo a trial
Notice Period
contract should state the notice period that either party must give to the other party to terminate the
employment

2. Privatization ( United Kingdom)
• the world face mounting demands on scarce public
resources.
• In developed countries there is a continuing demand for
higher standards in the provision of service
• the resources available to meet them is leading Governments
to look at how infrastructure can be developed, services
provided, and enterprise modernised in partnership with the
private sector.

3. Commercialisation ( United KIngdom)
Example: Education
• tuition fees alongside more credit based frameworks for university programmes and
modules have created a highly quantified and structured approach to higher education.
• There is indeed growing marketisation of education within an international perspective
asstudents or customers could be potentially attracted from around the global.
• Higher education is indeed increasingly viewed as a product with a global
marketplace.

4. Charging ( United Kingdom)
• Trade has long been pivotal to the United Kingdom’s economy.
• The volume of both the exports and the imports of the United Kingdom has
grown steadily in recent years.
• The most remarkable economic development in the United Kingdom has
been the growth of service industries.
• An increasing share of the United Kingdom’s trade is with other developed
countries. Joining the European Economic Community caused a major
reorientation of trade flows.