Globalisation policies
Globalisation refers to an increased interconnectedness between ppl, organisations and societies
across the world. This process impacted educational policy in number of ways:
- Globalisation increases opportunities for marketisation in education, e.g. foreign
organisations can establish international schools in the UK, strengthening parentocracy by
giving parents a wider choice of school.
- However, this has increased gap between m/c and w/c as the m/c parents have greater
cultural and economic capital so kore likely to exercise their ability to choose schools than
w/c parents.
- Globalisation also increases opportunities for private companies to become involved in
education, e.g., the British exam board Edexcel is owned by Pearson, an American testing
and publishing company.
- Also created opportunities for UK organisations to establish themselves overseas. Some UK
universities now have campuses in foreign countries, such as the Uni of Leicester campus in
china.
- Led to change in UK school curriculum as schools now place a greater emphasis on tech
based subjects like computer science to meet the needs of the global economy.
- Led to greater diversity of school cohorts, immigration means that students attend school
from wider backgrounds and so schools have put more emphasis on assimilation policies.
Globalisation refers to an increased interconnectedness between ppl, organisations and societies
across the world. This process impacted educational policy in number of ways:
- Globalisation increases opportunities for marketisation in education, e.g. foreign
organisations can establish international schools in the UK, strengthening parentocracy by
giving parents a wider choice of school.
- However, this has increased gap between m/c and w/c as the m/c parents have greater
cultural and economic capital so kore likely to exercise their ability to choose schools than
w/c parents.
- Globalisation also increases opportunities for private companies to become involved in
education, e.g., the British exam board Edexcel is owned by Pearson, an American testing
and publishing company.
- Also created opportunities for UK organisations to establish themselves overseas. Some UK
universities now have campuses in foreign countries, such as the Uni of Leicester campus in
china.
- Led to change in UK school curriculum as schools now place a greater emphasis on tech
based subjects like computer science to meet the needs of the global economy.
- Led to greater diversity of school cohorts, immigration means that students attend school
from wider backgrounds and so schools have put more emphasis on assimilation policies.
