Trade Liberalisation of Education Services Under Gats Through 'Commercial Presence', and Choice of Educational Quality

Download or read book Trade Liberalisation of Education Services Under Gats Through 'Commercial Presence', and Choice of Educational Quality written by Arundhati Sarkar Bose and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rules and principles of the General Agreement on Trade in Services govern the liberalization of trade in services in Member countries of the World Trade Organisation. Rules of trade liberalisation for the education sector are currently under negotiation. The issue of trade in education instigate speculations and debate over its possible implications. Quality of education and distribution of educational opportunities are hugely debated issues in relation to trade in education. This paper presents the debate with particular reference to trade in education through the mode of supply of Commercial Presence. Under this mode of supply universities directly set up affiliates or branch campuses in foreign countries. The paper also formulates a mathematical model that attempts to envisage the quality of educational services that a profit maximising branch campus is likely to provide. It shows that quality of education in a branch campus is contingent on the quality of education provided by the domestic university in the country hosting the branch campus as well as the its consumers' willingness to pay for education. The paper also affirms the popular argument that access to different qualities of education depends on the distribution of wealth.