Jo Bastiaens explores the goals, efforts and outcomes of international assistance to higher education over the past three decades and investigates how these have impacted changing State-university relations.
Jo Bastiaens explores the goals, efforts and outcomes of international assistance to higher education over the past three decades and investigates how...
Since the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) was created in 1995, there has been international pressure towards the liberalization of education all over the world, as well as new challenges to the traditional internationalization rationale in the field of higher education. Nevertheless, education liberalization under the GATS is also a contested process. Public universities, teachers unions, development NGOs and other education stakeholders have opposed and campaigned against the GATS in different countries and at a range of levels from local to global. Based on intensive fieldwork...
Since the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) was created in 1995, there has been international pressure towards the liberalization of educa...