Globalisation And Educational Policy Case Study

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The Impact of Globalisation on Educational Policy: the Privatisation and the Liberalisation of Higher Education in Southeast Asia …………………………………….. Educational policy formation of the government has been affected by globalisation, the accelerated growth of technologies, and the market-based system. The privatisation and the liberalisation are two from various educational policies that the governments use to respond to globalisation. The privatisation means “The transfer of a business, industry, or service from public to private ownership and control” (Oxford Dictionary Online, 2016). According to Ball (2009), there are three inter-related kinds of privatisation of public sector education that consist of “(1) Organisational recalibration, ‘selling’ improvement and mediating policy, (2) The colonisation of the infrastructures of policy, (3) The global reach of education business” (p.84). Private educational businesses sell the retailing solutions, such as continuing professional development, consultancy, and training, to the schools and the universities to support the schools or the universities to accomplish the national policies. It seems that the private educational businesses bring innovation into the educational institutions, influence the government’s …show more content…

However, public higher education institutions in some Southeast Asian countries are not efficient for the increasing demand. Therefore, the privatisation is used to deal with this challenge. In Malaysia, the Malaysian Government announced the Private Higher Educational Institutional Act (PHEIA) to encourage the private sector to be involved in higher education. Consequently, more Malaysian students are able to study in higher education level (Anantha, 2011). The increase of the private higher education institutions in Cambodia is also the result of the increasing demand for higher education (Feuer and Hornidge,

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