Monitoring the Impact of Globalisation on Education and Human Development

During the twentieth century marked advances occurred in science and technology that spread across the world and greatly changed the way in which we live. While the term ‘globalisation’ that refers to these changes, has its origins in the twentieth century, the processes that involve global development had their beginnings in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The growth of modern science and technology accelerated this development during the latter half of the twentieth century to such and extent that Giddens (1999), in speaking and writing about the effects of globalisation refers to the “Runaway World” in his Reith Lectures, two of which were given in the Asia-Pacific region in Hong Kong and Delhi as part of what he referred to as a “global electronic conversation”. It has been the very rapid developments in the process of global change that have drawn attention both to the benefits and the problems that accompany globalisation. However, instead of being more and more under our control, the world seems to be running out of control.