What is Globalization? Globalization is the word used to describe the growing interdependence of the world's economies, cultures, and populations, brought about by cross-border trade in goods and services, technology, and flows of investment, people, and information.
T he impact of globalization has been both positive and negative in the sector of education.
Curriculum Upgradation The modern advances in information technology have revolutionized among others, the content of knowledge and the process of educational transaction.
Productivity Orientation The basic objective of globalization is to enhance productivity and to make educational system an instrument in preparing students who can compete in the world markets as productive members of the society.
Promoting international understanding, collaboration, harmony, and acceptance to cultural diversity across countries and regions.
IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION TO EDUCATION
- education serves as foundation to global stability.
- Globalization enhances the student’s ability to acquire and utilize knowledge.
- Globalization produces an increased quantity of scientifically and technically trained persons.
- It encourages students to work in teams. To be able to work closely in teams is the need for employees.
- Globalization breaks the boundaries of space and time.
- Globalization meets the knowledge, education and learning challenges and opportunities of the Information Age.
In other words, before the 20th century, scholastic work were predominantly simple and constrained in the local, the domestic, the nearby. They were limited to one's own village, one's own region, one's own country.
Nevertheless, the world has been in a constant change. Anything which pertained to the term globalization was attributed to modernization, or anything that is up-to-date, if not better. Part and parcel of this trend is the advent and irresistible force of information technology and information boom through the wonders of the Internet.
Finally, globalization has involved the uncontrollable movement of scholars, laborers, and migrants moving from one location to another in search for better employment and living conditions.
Apparently, globalization seemed to be all-encompassing, affecting all areas of human life, and that includes education. One indicator of this is the emergence of international education as a concept.
Moreover, globalization and international education are at play, for instance, De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines entering into agreements and external linkages with several universities in the Asian region like Japan's Waseda University and Taiwan's Soochow University for partnership and support.
Respectively, online degree programs being offered to a housewife who is eager to acquire some education despite her being occupied with her motherly duties. Students taking semesters or study-abroad programs; and finally the demand to learn English - the lingua franca of the modern academic and business world - by non-traditional speakers, like the Chinese, the Japanese, and the Korean students exerting efforts to learn the language in order to qualify for a place in English-speaking universities and workplaces.
Apparently, all of these promote international education, convincing its prospective consumers that in today's on-going competition, a potent force to boost one's self-investment is to leave their homes, fly to another country, and take up internationally relevant courses.
In terms of international education being observed in the Philippines, universities have incorporated in their mission and vision the values of molding graduates into globally competitive professionals. Furthermore, Philippine universities have undergone internationalization involving the recruitment of foreign academics and students and collaboration with universities overseas.
English training has also been intensified, with the language being used as the medium of instruction aside from the prevailing Filipino vernacular. Finally, Philippine higher education, during the onset of the 21st century, has bolstered the offering of nursing and information technology courses because of the demand of foreign countries for these graduates.