GATS and Higher Education: State of Play of the Liberalization Commitments

Autor/in	Verger, Antoni
Titel	GATS and Higher Education: State of Play of the Liberalization Commitments
Quelle	In: Higher Education Policy, 22 (2009) 2, S.225-244 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0952-8733
DOI	10.1057/hep.2008.28
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; International Education; International Trade; International Organizations; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Comparative Analysis; Measurement Techniques; Economic Factors; Politics of Education; Educational Trends; Privatization; Treaties; Educational Principles + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Internationale Erziehung; Trade; International relations; Handel; Internationale Beziehungen; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Messtechnik; Ökonomischer Faktor; Educational policy; Bildungsentwicklung; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Abkommen; Bildungsprinzip
Abstract	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 framework is examined. The analysis is divided into two main parts. First, the state of the current situation of higher education liberalization and that of other education sectors are reviewed and compared. Second, the factors that influence the undertaking of liberalization commitments on education, specifically higher education, are analyzed. To make these comparative analyses, EduGATS, a novel index to measure the degree of liberalization of educational services, is introduced. (Contains 5 tables, 8 figures and 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10