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Verger, Antoni – Higher Education Policy, 2009
Higher education is the education level under the most pressure to be internationally liberalized. Currently, the main global instrument to achieve this liberalization goal is the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization. In this paper, the process of trade liberalization of higher education in the GATS…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Education, International Trade, International Organizations
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