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Vlk, Ales; Westerheijden, Don; van der Wende, Marijk – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2008
This paper looks at the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) as an important part of the international trade law system and explores if and how it affects the steering capacity of a nation state regarding higher education. It offers a new conceptual framework to look on the impact of GATS on higher education within its increasingly…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Trade, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
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Glastra, Folke J.; Hake, Barry J.; Schedler, Petra E. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2004
Globalization and individualization have radically changed both the economic system and the personal life world in industrial or postindustrial nation-states. To survive hypercompetition and volatile consumer choice, learning organizations and a workforce engaged in lifelong learning are needed. Constructing "the good life" has become an…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Individualism