Conclusion
By breaking the education system down in the form of a business model, it becomes clearer to see the inequalities that arise. The problem with globalisation is the gap between rich and poor, and that is only exacerbated with the current model of business that is leaking into all parts of education.
The government put in place a Five year strategy for children and learners in 2004, but three years after that five year plan, inequality is still very much within education, if not more prevalent as Globalisation takes more of a hold. It is promising though that this plan attempted to address the more complex socio-economic factors that contribute to inequality within education unfortunately the nature of globalisation, makes these problems even more complex and harder to solve, as globalisation increases [Alexander, 2010].
People use to ask about the problems with the church running the schools, but at least the church was an institution that could be held accountable, the business system does not work this way, no-one can be blamed if it is not right and thus the problems only increase, exponentially. This is a worrying time for our children, who, based on the amount of capital they posses will be either at the top, or left behind, and in an increasingly globalised world, this means more left behind than ever before.
The question we have to ask ourselves as educational consumers, is do we want our children being taught by businesses, or teachers, do we want our schools run by corporations or educators? Because when you strip it all down, as we have in this education business model, inequalities are arising. How can this possibly produce the best workforce for tomorrow While we concentrate on a few, how are we going to sustain the many, education or otherwise...and the cycle continues. It is akin to negative equity within education, just like with our economy, it doesn't make sense to do this to education, but this being the very nature of globalisation, makes it almost impossible to avoid.
The government put in place a Five year strategy for children and learners in 2004, but three years after that five year plan, inequality is still very much within education, if not more prevalent as Globalisation takes more of a hold. It is promising though that this plan attempted to address the more complex socio-economic factors that contribute to inequality within education unfortunately the nature of globalisation, makes these problems even more complex and harder to solve, as globalisation increases [Alexander, 2010].
People use to ask about the problems with the church running the schools, but at least the church was an institution that could be held accountable, the business system does not work this way, no-one can be blamed if it is not right and thus the problems only increase, exponentially. This is a worrying time for our children, who, based on the amount of capital they posses will be either at the top, or left behind, and in an increasingly globalised world, this means more left behind than ever before.
The question we have to ask ourselves as educational consumers, is do we want our children being taught by businesses, or teachers, do we want our schools run by corporations or educators? Because when you strip it all down, as we have in this education business model, inequalities are arising. How can this possibly produce the best workforce for tomorrow While we concentrate on a few, how are we going to sustain the many, education or otherwise...and the cycle continues. It is akin to negative equity within education, just like with our economy, it doesn't make sense to do this to education, but this being the very nature of globalisation, makes it almost impossible to avoid.