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Verger, Antoni – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2011
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization has generated an intense and passionate debate about the relationship between free-trade and education and, specifically, about the effects of trade liberalization in national education systems. This article explores in detail this debate from a critical discourse…
Descriptors: International Trade, Education, Commercialization, Privatization
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Collins, Christopher S. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2007
Through successive rounds of negotiations, the World Trade Organization (WTO) encourages countries to commit their higher education system to the mandates of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The WTO is an organization committed to the aggressive trade liberalization of services like higher education. This ideology, known as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Ideology, Discourse Analysis