Abstract
The third institutional overview involves the field of education, an area that is heavily influenced by the principles of governance and increasingly subject to self-management. While there have been significant changes in the delivery of education, mainly as a consequence of neo-liberalism, it remains largely the prerogative of the nation state. Nonetheless, international influences play a significant role in a higher education that has become highly materialised. Within the EU there is an increasing tendency within language learning for teaching to focus on English as a consequence of the relationship between language and the labour market. This militates against the attempts of the EC to promote multilingual education.
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Statistics for years up to 2003/2004 are missing.
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Perhaps this is best exemplified in the case of England where Grin (2005) has estimated that the decision to abandon the teaching of foreign languages in English schools saved the authorities as much as 6 % of the education budget.
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The following observations derive from the DROFOLTA study referred to above (Strubell et al. 2007).
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This distinction parallels the distinction made by Foucault (2004) and Agamben (1998) between zoe or natural life and bios or political life, or between private and public life, a distinction that has all but disappeared in contemporary society.
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Williams, G., Williams, G. (2016). Education. In: Language, Hegemony and the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33416-5_8
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