Indian Higher Education Sector - Higher Education and GATS

Trade in education is organized in five categories of service, based on the United Nations Provisional Central Product Classification
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Jan. 5, 2012 - PRLog -- Trade in education is organized in five categories of service, based on the United Nations Provisional Central Product Classification (CPC):  Primary education, covering preschool and other primary education services, but excluding child care services;  Secondary education, including general higher secondary, technical and vocational secondary and technical and vocational services for disabled;  Higher Education, covering post secondary technical and vocational education services as well as other higher education services leading to university degree or equivalent;  Adult Education covers education for adults outside the regular education system;  Other Education; which covers all other education services not elsewhere classified; nonetheless education services related to recreation matters are not included. During the Uruguay Round only 29 member countries of the WTO (considering EC as a single member country) made commitments in education and only 21 of these included commitments in higher education. It is interesting to note that Congo, Lesotho, Sierra Leone and Jamaica have made full unconditional commitments in higher education, perhaps with the intent of encouraging foreign providers to help develop their education systems. Australia’s commitment for higher education covers provision of private tertiary education services, including university level. The European Union has included higher education in their schedule with clear limitations on all modes of trade except ‘consumption abroad’, which generally means foreign tuition paying students. Only four (Australia, New Zealand, USA and Japan) of the 21 countries with higher education commitments have submitted a negotiating proposal outlining their interests and issues. WTO members have chosen to impose considerably more limitations on trade in educational services in modes 3 and 4 than in modes 1 and 2. This is also the common picture for trade in other services. Furthermore, member countries have in general put slightly more limitations on trade in primary and secondary education than on higher and adult education.

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