Economism and commercialization as manifestation of the globalization of higher education

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The main point of the article is to disclose the essence of the phenomena of economism and commercialization. Economism is seen as part of globalization of education, a global corporatization of education provides training for the global labour market, using human capital economic theories. As noted by George Spring, the human capital, economists argue that investments in education lead to economic growth, reducing income inequality and increasing employment.In general, the globalization of higher education is considered as a process of increasing interdependence and convergence of national economics, trade liberalization and market dominated by competition, struggle, transnational education and the commercialization of knowledge, as well as the erosion and disappearance of national boundaries and models of education. Despite the fact that most researchers associate globalization with the increasing influence of the World Bank and Americanization of higher education, globalization of higher education is not linear, and the same process of unification of educational systems. In modern conditions has acquired a strong relevance to international competition and stratification of higher education is also an increasing competition for social and academic prestige. In the context of this increased institutional cross-border activities and academic mobility, global communications and mobility have created conditions for the emergence of the global higher education market. Consequently, the competition among elite universities is now globally closer to capitalist economic forms. The economization of education is considered as a component of global education, a global corporatization of education provides training for the global labour market using human capital economic theories. Such massive development of higher education is associated with a number of factors such as socio-economic and socio-cultural, which are manifested at both macro level of the whole society and the microsocial level of the individual.It becomes obvious by the fact that in a globalized world, the consumer society is transformed into goods, and the goods that will bring a significant profit with the appropriate investment. However, commercialization of education is quite dangerous for the classical Institute of education. Because education as another global business trend threatens the institutional framework and its content.The processes of globalization is greatly affected the emergence and spread of economism and the commercialization in various educational systems, in particular it is proved that they formed a single world information-educational space, the characteristics of which are: the rapid penetration of the globalization trends in the national educational system; integration of educational systems into the world market for educational services and intellectual products; increased competition in the global educational environment.

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