opportunity and division Angela W Little CIE seminar University of Sussex Nov 11 2013 Sri Lanka Globalisation The accelerated movement of goods services capital people and ideas across national borders ID: 646441
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Globalisation, employment and education: opportunity and division
Angela W Little
CIE seminar University of Sussex
Nov 11 2013Slide2Slide3
Sri LankaSlide4
Globalisation The accelerated movement of goods, services, capital, people and ideas across national bordersSlide5
BackgroundImperialism, colonialism and contemporary globalisation
Introduction of monetarist neo-liberal policies in industrialised countries
International finance institutions – shift in advice to poor countries – away from import substitution towards economic and trade liberalisation Slide6
Sri Lanka’s positionGeneral approach
Political landscape of education in Sri LankaSlide7
Growth Division
Growth in
Economy
Household incomes
Employment rate
Educational participation
Education and occupation expectations
Declines in
Poverty
From Low income to lower middle income status
Worsening
d
istribution of household incomes
Proportion with regular employment decreases
Female unemployment 2X male
O
ccupational expectations widen between social classes
Access to IT and English concentrated in urban areas
Academic performance differences by school type, medium of instruction, location and gender
Divisive civil warSlide8
Frontier zones and transnational spaceEducation changes attributable to globalisation and education changes during the era of globalisation Slide9Slide10
Curtin
University of Technology
Australia
BBA
Bachelor of Business Administration
For the first time in Sri Lanka all
three years of study at the ICBT Campus
Mount Lavinia
ICBT Campus
A member of Ceylinco Consolidated
Curtin
DegreeSlide11
Globalisation and Civil WarSlide12
Early peace – later conflict
1931 first Asian country to enjoy universal suffrage and limited self rule
Peaceful transition to independence. In 1948 Sri Lanka was ‘an oasis of stability, peace and order’ (de Silva, 1981)
Multi-party representative democracy in a socially plural society in which checks and balances needed to protect rights of minorities
Breakdowns in checks and balances after independence e.g. disenfranchisement of Indian Tamil labour
Emergence of Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism as a dominant political force
Official languages act of 1956
Emergence of ethno-nationalisms
Increasing state control of economic opportunities and political patronage in allocation of opportunities in a slow growing economy
Restriction of independence of the civil service
Seeds of ethnic conflict, civil war and class conflict sown
mid 1950s to mid 1970sSlide13
Comparative analysis – early integrators and later integrators
Education as a means to common identities
Coordinated education and economic policy
Post secondary and higher education