ABSTRACT
While educators and planners propose various reforms, the very slow rate of change of modern education is impressive (Cheng, Chapter 2, this volume). Still, over the past several decades, there have been important shifts in the rhetoric of educational reform, orchestrated especially by transnational entities. Two broad trends are likely to shape the near future of education: (a) the declining infl uence of the transnational entities that defi ned the educational agenda of the late twentieth century, and (b) the ongoing information revolution which is eroding confi dence in modern education while providing hints of new possibilities on the horizon.
