Globilisation

• For independent schools - Higher funding means smaller class sizes, parents should have right to give children the best possible education, these instututions can achieve a higher standard of education.
• Against independent schools - most cannot afford to send their children, they recieve the same tax relief and charity status, tax payer funds the training of a private school teacher.
• Privitisation - Transfer of once public assets such as utilities, healthcare or education to private companies.
• Examples of privatisation - exam boards such as pearson are multinational companies that control student grades, private businesses like parentpay run systems within schools.
• Globilisation - The process of globalisation, whereby the world is becoming more interconnected and interdependent.
• The government has further developed T-levels and a new institute for technology to ensure all skills provided are of the same global standard.
• Education systems globally become more similar as governments consider international league tables and tests.
• Academic institutions need to market themselves globally to attract global customers as foreign students pay a higher fee.
• Multi-national companies are increasingly involved in education via software and exam boards.
• EdExcel and all BTEC qualifications are owned by multinational Pearson.
• Strengths of globilisation - international comparisons of student performance are useful to improve funding in specific areas.

  More multicultural curriculum which has positively impacted the understanding of different religions and cultures.
• weaknesses of globilisation - these tests only measure a very narrow definition of education and some countries ave a more exam approach rather than a development of skills
• globilisation migration policy - a consequence of globilisation is increased migration making the UK a super diverse multicultural society.

  in response, school policy has futher integrated BME culture into the curriculum.

  however some believe the policy has led to white and BAME communities sending thier children to more culturally homogenous schools that some say has led to the marginilisation forming resistance identities like radicalism and extremism.
• assessment methods - some sociologists believe teaching assessments are changed once black pupils start to achieve better than white pupils to root white supremacy (IN THE USA).
• Access to opportunities - gifted and talented programmes open to help BME in deprived city areas but ends up recruiting mostly white pupils.
• Multiculturalism and policy - in 1960s school policy was focused on the assimilation of ethnic minorities, however the multiculturalism in society has changed the curriculum to integrate more BME culture. although, some accuse new curriculum of being segregational and tokenism.
• National curriculum - Boys and girls have equal opportunity to study maths, english and sciences
• Women into STEM - makes teachers aware of the past sexist views of female scientists and encourages females to get involved in past male-predominant subjects.