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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
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Robertson, Susan L.; Bonal, Xavier; Dale, Roger – Comparative Education Review, 2002
Analyzes potential effects of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) on the orientation and control of national education systems. Explains concepts of space, scale, and territorialization in relation to critical shifts in GATS's activity in education. Suggests that rescaling aspects of educational governance to the global level will…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Economics of Education, Educational Trends, Governance