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Notes science and environmental science. Globalization and technological advancements are delivering
and increasing access to the world and subsequently subjects should reflect this global outlook.

Lack of regulation is a major issue with the globalization of higher education.

Just because of technology and communication seems to be creating in human life between the
‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’, resulting in a bifurcated society of those who can afford such
information technology and those who can’t, so too does globalization. While education
institutions in western societies are embracing technology, developing countries are once again
left behind, too weak and fragile to implement development programs for education, let alone
introduce technology as well. While third world states encourage their citizens to seek more
education, severe limitations in delivering basic services are a problem. A lack of infrastructure
and funding makes it difficult to implement any technological and communication
advancements. However, despite differences in economy, political, culture and society, second
and third worlds have adopted educational ideals from western thought and are anxious to
appear modern and therefore promote education as a symbol of modernity and development
to their own population and the foreign countries.
The spread of education internationally, as a result of globalization, has clearly had effects on
cultures worldwide. The capitalist society is gradually becoming global with a strong emphasis
on free trade emerging. Educational institutions have reacted accordingly, by becoming more
market oriented, focusing their energy more on creating funds rather than providing sufficient
education for students. Due to this increasing free trade around the globe – to end protection in
many sectors so that there is more competition and privatisation, education is increasingly
being drawn into this global capitalist competition. The Internationalisation of education has
become one of the key themes of educational policy and planning in the 1990s and the integration
of worldwide capital and labour markets; educators are being forced to respond to a new set of
challenges. The internationalisation of education, particularly higher education, is a growing
phenomenon. Universities and colleges around the world are increasingly becoming forced to
compete in the global capitalist market and engage in entrepreneurial activity to sustain
themselves in an increasingly ' uncertain world '.
The internationalisation of higher education can be linked to various internal and external
changes in the international system. Externally, there have been changes in the labour market,
which have resulted in calls for more knowledge and skilled workers, and workers with deeper
understandings of languages, cultures and business methods from all over the world. “Modern
education…is almost exclusively focused on preparing children for an urban future.
The role of education has become more linked to globally competitive positions. Subsequent
changes in university functions have lead universities toward “direct entrepreneurial activity
to sustain themselves." This in turn produces a change in institutional approaches to the
development of overseas education. University courses must now be cross-cultural in content,
which is in association with the growing number of students.
28.2.2 Employment Due to Globalization
Education is becoming more invaluable to individuals. In today's environment, education
provides individuals with a better chance of employment, which in turn leads to a better
lifestyle, power and status.
Under the prevailing global forces, higher education institutions everywhere are subject to
global trends. Universities now facing more challenges than ever before, the rise of a globalised
knowledgebased economy has brought universities in many countries under closer scrutiny for
the economic contributions they make. Governments have been particularly concerned that
universities serve national interests in the global marketplace. There is an international tendency

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