Tomorrow's schools, today's industry : economic agendas and competitive forces in global education New Zealand and South Korea

Abstract

This thesis points out that education industries in both New Zealand and South Korea are manifestations of the long-term effects of a global mantra of competition and economic trade agendas and/or policies that the United States of America, the World Bank, and the IMF have strategically developed and implemented since the 1980s, and argues that further ‘shadow’ industry activity is increasingly being spread into the state-schooling sectors of countries, including New Zealand.