Globalisation & Education Policy

Question 1

How has globalisation affected education?

Answer 1

Now needs to focus on providing skills needed for a global economy to compete.

Question 2

What examples are there of the UK education policies that have changed the curriculum? (3)

Answer 2

More challenging, modelled of what students learn in the middle-east.
Non-European languages.
Climate change studies.

Question 3

What do organisations such as the World Bank sometimes do?

Answer 3

Make monetary aid conditional on countries pursuing approved educational policies.

Question 4

What are developing countries increasingly doing?

Answer 4

Teaching students in English as the international language of business.

Question 5

Globalisation has ______ affected education in England as there’s an _______ on _______ learning to keep up with ______ changes.

Answer 5

a) clearly
b) emphasis
c) life-long
d) global

Question 6

How can it be argued globalisation hasn’t impacted a drive to include more in education about other countries?

Answer 6

The new National Curriculum has increased emphasis on traditional aspects of British culture like Shakespeare.

Question 7

What did Ken Robinson (2014) suggest?

Answer 7

The pressure for international educational competitiveness is at the expense of student’s creativity.