Conclusion
The global society and the knowledge economy have generated a world of rapid social change: the environment within which people live is changing rapidly, and that change makes demands on individuals and groups to learn in order to keep abreast. It is not surprising that these social grou ings are themselves regarded as learning societies, learning cities, and so on. However, they are not learning but changing; the people in them learn individually even though there might be a collective outcome. That outcome is usually achieved because those in power in the social group have put structures in place that are more likely to allow for the group to respond to the pressures for change. Among those structures which have changed education itself and so we will look briefly in the following chapter at the way in which education over the same period.