Since the past due Seventies, Sri Lanka has gone through a socio-economic transformation, from protectionism in the direction of fiscal liberalisation and lengthening integration into the realm economic climate. via a scientific comparability of those sessions of financial switch (1956–1977, and 1977 to the present), Angela W. Little and Siri T. Hettige research the influence of this modification on schooling, early life employment and equality of chance in Sri Lanka.

The booklet charts Sri Lanka’s shift from a predominantly agricultural economic system to 1 ruled via providers and production, a discount in unemployment, emerging academic and occupational degrees, expectancies and achievements, and a discount in poverty. In flip, it finds a starting to be function for the non-public quarter and overseas pursuits in post-secondary schooling and a modest progress in deepest schooling on the basic and secondary degrees, in addition to widening social disparities in entry to skills, education and abilities. The Sri Lankan adventure of, and engagement with, globalisation has been tempered via a long-running ethnic clash that hindered monetary and social improvement and diverted significant public money into defence and struggle. Now that the battle is ‘won’, the problem is the best way to put money into human source improvement and the fulfilment of the expectancies of teenage from all ethnic and social teams. This problem calls for severe coverage research, the iteration of extra kingdom sales, the reallocation of current public assets, and a political dedication to the successful of a sustainable peace and stability.

This publication makes a tremendous contribution to the wider foreign literature at the implications of globalisation for schooling coverage and perform, and to the interplay of exogenous and endogenous forces for academic swap. It offers with the stress among the excessive social call for for schooling and the starting to be call for for specialized abilities in a altering economic system. As such, it has a large interdisciplinary attraction throughout schooling coverage and politics, Asian schooling, South Asian society, formative years coverage, sociology of schooling, political economic system of social switch, and globalisation.