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Making Sense of the GATS Debate: Semiotic Analysis of the Conflicting Ideas on the Education/Free-Trade Relationship
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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
GATS and Higher Education: State of Play of the Liberalization Commitments
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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
GATS and the Education Service Industry: The Politics of Scale and Global Reterritorialization.
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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
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS): Why You Need To Be Concerned.
Schacter, Noel – Education Canada, 2002
The General Agreement on Trade in Services gives priority to international commercial interests, and unless this trend is countered, public policy authority for education will shift to the World Trade Organization. While the Canadian government has stated that public education systems are not negotiable, the exclusion provisions it bases that…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Role, International Trade
Studying the Supra-National in Education: GATS, Education and Teacher Union Policies
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Fredriksson, Ulf – European Educational Research Journal, 2004
This article starts by putting the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) into a general context of privatisation. It is noted that the privatisation process is in many cases complex and not only about full-scale privatisation of schools. The growing trade in education must be seen in this context. GATS is not an agreement which deals with…
Descriptors: Unions, Teacher Associations, Public Education, Treaties
Privatisation Policies and Postprivatisation Control Devices in India's Higher Education: Evidence from a Regional Study and Implications for Developing Countries
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Narayana, M. R. – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2006
This article focuses on economic analysis of privatisation policies and postprivatisation control devices in India's higher education. As a case study, the experiences of Karnataka State in collegiate education under general higher education are emphasised. A change in public financing, rather than a shift of public ownership and management to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Economic Research, Private Sector, Foreign Countries