How Global Capital is Remaking International Education

Dr. Hyejin Kim served as founding convener of the Global Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore, where she is currently a lecturer in Global Studies and Political Science. She holds degrees in Global Affairs, China Studies, and Cultural Anthropology. She has written five other books, three in English and two in Korean. International Ethnic Networks and Intra-Ethnic Conflict: Koreans in China (Palgrave, 2010) is based on her fieldwork in China with various Korean groups. She has also written a fieldwork-based work of fiction, Jia: A Novel of North Korea (Cleis, 2007), which has been discussed in The New York Review of Books and excerpted in a literary journal. The research for How Global Capital Is Remaking International Education builds on her experience working in the international education sector. She served as the managing director of an international school in Singapore, and she also worked in China for one of the largest international school operators in the world. For the past nine years, she has been an adviser on Singapore and Swedish education policy to the Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation, a government agency in Seoul.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 The Creation of an International Education Sector.- 3 The Origins of International School Groups.- 4 Government Policies and the Shifting Place of International Schools in the Education System.- 5 Economic Planning, Education Policy, and International Schools.- 6 The Business of International Education.- 7 International Education Goes Global: Transnational Education Corporations as Global Actors.- 8 Conclusion.