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GATS and Higher Education
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GATS covers 12 different sectors of services, including
transportation, recreation, construction, education among others.
As a sector education is further subdivided into primary, secondary,
higher, adult education and other services as well. The agreement
distinguishes four modes of supply and applies these to the trade of
ALL services. These are:
- (1) Cross-border
supply
- (2) Consumption
abroad
- (3) Commercial
presence
- (4) Presence of
natural persons
To understand how these modes apply to education, it is easier to see
that the four modes cover respectively (1) programme mobility (distance
education, online education, courses franchising…), (2) student mobility, (3) institution mobility (branch
campus) and (4) academic mobility
(professors and researchers working temporarily abroad).
For further information, see:
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