ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how globalism has impacted school education. It explores the changing face of international school education. Globalisation and the competitive market forces of the neoliberal ethos have generated a massive growth in the knowledge industries that are having profound effects on society and educational institutions. An index to the effect of Hawke-Keating's drive to open and deregularise Australia's markets, is the growth of international schools and schools offering the International Baccalaureate (IB). This was an obvious outcome of the internationalising of the school education market in the growing adoption by schools, colleges and education systems of IB, and its influence on Australian schooling. Directly influenced by risk society imperatives, during the 1980s political and national discourse began to embrace issues associated with school education retention, or graduation rates, and not from any social justice point of view, but rather imperatives derived from risk society thinking.
