Globalisation is a new concept that was developed in the 1980’s and is now a familiar term worldwide. A reason for this popularity could be due to the fast development of communication technologies, which have made impressive progress from the 1980s to the present day. Communication has developed from archaic hand written information to instant messaging i.e. Twitter, Facebook and BBMs. Through these mediums people from across the globe are able to communicate information instantly and in real time.
The global bringing together of people, business and information, creates the word globalisation.Globalisation seems nowadays to be an integral part of life and impacts on everyday matters such as business, media etc. Moreover it has greatly influenced the following areas: socio-cultural, educational development, political shifts, economically, financially, trade and communication integration.According to Will Straw (27 October 2011) Globalisation is able to portray local and nationalistic perspectives to an international audience to an interconnected and interdependent world. Globalisation has taken the huge modern world of different countries, languages, technologies and people to create a Nano World.
As communication becomes faster and immediate, the old barriers of countries that were dominated by boarders and politics are no longer viable. Globalisation allows access to a huge array of information at one’s finger tips. Anyone with a computer or mobile device is able to gain access to information on most things, be they manufactured in China and then sold in the Middle East. There is nothing preventing the buyer from purchasing items that have a global footprint including education.Jane C.
and Millar Wood both agreed that from 1997 the impact of globalisation on education has been enormous. Education has had a tremendous influence in shaping the leaders of the future. This influence is obvious, as education is now more freely available via online courses, live streaming of lectures and cross collaboration of institutes e.g.
UCL Qatar. Education has created awareness amongst those who are old and may not be adept with the latest technology, yet most will be aware of global events and news. They may not have had the opportunity or money for education when they were younger, now they have access to education, as it is no longer dominated by money but rather whether they have an internet connection. By the same token, the younger generation now writes not using pen and paper but most likely touch screens and stylus.
This instant global access and imparting of information has an immediate effect on global perceptions, ideas and events, as opinions or concepts can change in minutes rather than months or years. This can have an effect on the politics of education, not just education itself. (2008)Over that last two decades it would be hard pressing to find a family member, who does not have educational potential. Globalisation has created the opportunities for those with limited access to education and enlightened those who underestimated the value of knowledge and its benefits.As the world grows economically and intellectually, the increased demand for knowledge has pressured countries such as the UK and USA to further open their universities to overseas students.
This has generated a vast income for the UK. From 2010 to 2011, 268 new educational businesses were set up, based on world-class research, the creation of spin off companies bringing the total to 1,262, employing more than 18,000 people and generating a profit of nearly £2.1 billion. (HEFCE - 23 July 2012)Globalisation affects everyone everywhere, from birth to death, encompassing the life in between. It instigates debates on birth control and death penalties and so much more. (Mohammed Abbas Abdul Razak) “Most scholars state that globalisation is something devised by the west and directed towards the developing and under developed countries of the world.
It ramifies into many areas of human life like economics, politics, culture sociology etc.”
