Policy linked to Globalisation

Question 1

What is globalisation?

Answer 1

• The increasing interconnectedness between societies across the globe

Question 2

What are three aspects of globalisation?

Answer 2

• Economic Globalisation
• Cultural Globalisation
• Increasing Migration

Question 3

What is economic globalisation?

Answer 3

• The globalisation of trade, production and consumption
• A decline in manufacturing jobs in recent years as they moved abroad

Question 4

What is cultural globalisation?

Answer 4

• The spread of ideas and values around the globe through the use technology to communicate around the world

Question 5

What is increasing migration?

Answer 5

• People moving around the globe for work, educational, voluntary and involuntary
• Much more multicultural society now

Question 6

How has globalisation affected the education in the UK?

Answer 6

• Increase competition for jobs around
• The establishment of global ICT companies
• Education is now more multicultural because of increasing migration
• Cultural globalisation challenges National Curriculum
• Growth of ICT Companies and global media

Question 7

How has globalisation increased competition for jobs?

Answer 7

• Increased spending on education to try give children skills for a global labour market

Question 8

How is education more multicultural?

Answer 8

Increasing migration meaning other religions and languages taught and many faith schools

Question 9

What challenges the authority of traditional schooling?

Answer 9

• The growth of ICT companies and global media as new resources such as YouTube and online

Question 10

What is PISA?

Answer 10

• A standardized test for all countries to test reading, literacy and maths which then produced league tables to rank countries on average student performance

Question 11

How has globalisation affected education?

Answer 11

• International companies providing educational services
• Private schools attracting students from across the globe
• Digital education