globalisation

• globalisation is increasing interconnectedness between societies across the globe
• advantages

  broken down barriers between societies as the same products, goods and services are available across the world
• league tables

  compare the standards of educational performance
• increased competition for jobs abroad meant the new labour government increased spending on education in order to try and give children skills to make them more competitive in a global labour market
• increasing use of technology
• migration make curriculum more multi cultural
• increasing cultural globalisation challenges the relevance of a 'national curriculum' and the type of history and literature we should be teaching