Description: 'Globalisation' can be represented as the imposition of neo-liberal ideology on a transnational scale, one consequence of which is the rise of the 'new managerialism' in British social welfare. This paper's contribution to the symposium will focus on the particular implications of this change for the British education system. Education in contemporary Britain increasingly appears to now serve a very narrow notion of pedagogy, reflecting the dominance of the new managerialism in the public sector. In the name of economy, efficiency and effectiveness, social progress is increasingly seen to lie in achieving continual increases in 'productivity'. The current emphasis on 'skills' is accompanied by an increasing delimitation of other forms of knowledge, resulting in the increasing production of uncritical thinkers, compliant to the needs of the market. At the heart of this critical reflection on contemporary developments lies a concern for the increasing demise of democracy that is generated through these 'conditions of domination'. It is argued that the direct results of such a reductionist and dehumanising 'education' system include the generation of an increasingly non-democratic, socially-unjust, non-empathic and exclusive society.