1. Defining the concept of globalization and explaining the past and present of globalization. 2. Assessing the effects of globalization on central state structures and education and evaluating new liberalism and new conservatism and their reflections on education. 3. Describing governance and educational policies and evaluating inequality in education engendered by neoliberal education policies and urban settlement.

Globalization, Capitalism and neoliberalization of public institutions, NEoconservatism, Transnational corporations, Education and corporisation, Globalisation and its effects on education