Volume : II, Issue : I, January - 2013

WTO–GATS and Higher Education in India : Opportunities and Challenges

P. Manivannan

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Education is an important index of human development. Along wit economic growth and empowerment, it forms the core of every social and human development doctrines. Among various levels of education, higher education has pervasive and influential of development, since it empowers the individual with necessary skills and competence for achieving important personal and social goals and thereby contributing to the social development. It is widely believed that the state of higher education in country is an index of its future wellbeing. Higher education is needed a vital too for intellectual cultural and aesthetic development and means for achieving wider social aspirations. The phenomena of liberalization and globalization of India economy coupled with revolution in information technology have ought new challenges to higher education. In the present era of globalization, and in the World Trade Organization (WTO) controlled international regime, education is a service that can be traded through different modes recognized under GATS. The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which came into force in 1996. It is a multilateral agreement that is based on the premise that progressive liberalization of trade in commercial services will promote economic growth in WTO member countries. It provides the legal rights to the member countries to trade in all services, except those (like defense) provided entirely by

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P. Manivannan WTO-GATS and Higher Education in India : Opportunities and Challenges

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