{"id":6574,"date":"2016-02-02T07:26:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T07:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6574"},"modified":"2016-02-02T07:26:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T07:26:26","slug":"is-global-learning-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/02\/02\/is-global-learning-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Is global learning in trouble?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it? \u00a0I ask because it's chief promoter, <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.pearson.com\/global-learning-programme.html\">Pearson<\/a>, seems to be. \u00a0The Times reports that not only is Pearson shedding 10% of its workforce (4,000 jobs, world-wide), but that it is also paying dividends by taking on more debt. \u00a0It shed 3,000 jobs in 2013. \u00a0Most of the 4,000 may well be in the USA where criticism of the company in relation to text books and testing is increasingly vocal \u2013 see, in particular, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/alan-singer\/hacking-away-at-the-pears_b_1464134.html\">blog<\/a>\u00a0by Alan\u00a0Singer in the Huffington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, I've written quite a bit over the last few years about Pearson, particularly about it's role in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/06\/04\/good-news-for-educators-in-wales-thanks-to-pearson\/\">PISA<\/a>, and about what seems a strange marriage between it and the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/06\/26\/global-learning-is-about-the-economy-after-all\/\">global education<\/a> \/ learning \/ competencies tendency. \u00a0How such a \"progressive\", right-on bunch of activists can be in cahoots with what Singer calls \"a giant octopus\" \u2013 and an \u00fcber-globalised one at that \u2013 still has me scratching my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it? \u00a0I ask because it's chief promoter, Pearson, seems to be. \u00a0The Times reports that not only is Pearson shedding 10% of its workforce (4,000 jobs, world-wide), but that it is also paying dividends by taking on more debt....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}