Abstract:
The study identifies the negative impact of globalization on education policies and
practices of Public Higher Education Institutions (PHEIS) in the Philippines.
In general, this undergraduate thesis aims to examine education policy formulation and
find out the major players involved, both in the international and local arena, in the
shaping of such guidelines. It also aims to determine the trend of privatization schemes
and their effects on PHEISs in the country.
The author made use of archival materials for comparative content analyses of various
local and foreign policies of international organizations. The study required scrutiny of
several events. places and time which portray the evolution of different education
policies, surveys, studies and enactments.
Being a qualitative research, the author employed the oriental qualitative method as it
fits the topic being studied. The method was used to determine the manifestations of
globalization in the variables ideological perspective. Using this as a tool. the study was
then viewed from the lenses of political economy.
The author then came to the conclusion that the Philippine government’s unconditional
adherence to recommendations made by international financing institutions and
supranational organizations permit local education policies to be tailored to adhere to the
needs of private firms and foreign monopoly corporations. In the Philippines, this
translates to the government’s gradual abandonment of the education sector through
reduction in public spending on education, and the corporate takeover of tertiary
education by private and foreign corporations. Such schemes institutionalize the process
of privatization, making higher education a mere commodity.
