The Australian Education Union said allowing corporations to "shape" the curriculum would ensure students obtained narrow education that was shaped towards the company's needs, not those of students.
The time has come to stop gawking at this spectacle and to figure out what is happening to so many of the corporations that shape our lives.
Epstein returned to New York, where he lives, and found himself thinking about the power of huge corporations to shape ordinary lives.
As the international subprime bubble and bank collapses of 2007-2009 have so recently demonstrated, just as corporations can shape the destiny of nations, they can also drag down their economies.
These problems cluster around the current economic situation, which has revealed the extraordinary power of capital markets and business corporations in shaping the structure and actions of our government.
It is a relationship that is likely to come under renewed scrutiny, but for now it is Whittingdale's take on the BBC that is garnering attention, with the corporation's shape and future funding up for grabs along with the renewal of its royal charter by the end of 2016.
"We now have 'future blindness' in the headlights of a tomorrow pushed by a few large corporations and shaped by the inescapable logic of hyper-efficiency".
Nick Buxton, co-editor of The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the Military and Corporations Are Shaping a Climate-Changed World, says many militaries take a very long-term view and are planning for "very dystopian scenarios" as a result of climate change, including resource conflicts and mass migrations.
Other factors mentioned are the conditions of work imposed on healthcare suppliers by insurance companies and the role of medical corporations in shaping private practice: "The insurance companies have imposed abusive conditions on health suppliers" (Paediatrician #12, EsSALUD).
The awards will be presented at a luncheon at the Roosevelt Hotel on April 2. The economics reporting award went to Nancy Cleeland, Abigail Goldman, Evelyn Iritani and Tyler Marshall of The Los Angeles Times, whose series, "The Wal-Mart Effect," explored the role of the world's largest corporation in shaping the cultures and economies of countries.
