The crypto-growth of “International Schooling”: emergent issues and implications

The diverse arena of International Schooling concerned with schools delivering a non-local curriculum in English largely outside an English-speaking nation, has grown enormously during the current wave globalisation. Traditionally, “International Schools” played intended ideological and pragmatic role, albeit rather discrete peripheral manner which practice facilitated exclusive schooling experience for limited already privileged transnational elite clientele. Its growing appeal access to wider, localised clientele is now key source tension. A period fast-paced, reactionary policy-making areas such as China, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Qatar, quickly quietly ushered new, provision private international schooling, supported by complex global package commercially-driven support-agencies backed equity. Further, body state-backed “Public are discretely beginning appear, offering entirely new activity. Moreover, there evidence that much this occurring without national debate or awareness, creating newer more form “crypto-growth”. Schools competes directly within sphere education, raising both their political profile critical discussion about emergent purpose intentions. role seems blurred problematic, tensions appear at local level adding sense insecurity precarity.