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- Title
A Study of Gats Provisions, Higher Education and Understanding Among University Teachers.
- Authors
Joshi, Yogesh C.; Makwana, Ashish K.
- Abstract
In post WTO scenario, with the inclusion of education in GATS, a discussion on free trade in education becomes imperative, in order to visualize threats to existing system of higher education in India and to turn them into opportunities. If this is not done in time various stakeholders in education system of the country may be greatly harmed. It is true, that inclusion of education services, under the ambit of GATS will lead to operation of educational institutions on the world stage or globalization of education. In this race for globalization, which has already begun, it is the resource rich universities and educational institutions of the developed nations, which will definitely have an upper edge over the resource starved institutions of developing countries. It is therefore necessary to understand threats and opportunities of globalization of education to our economy, the issues of quality and equity it raises, the means of turning threat into opportunity and enhancing relevance and standards of higher education for Indian economy. Higher education as it prevails today in India is not capable of heralding a new era. It cannot prepare India for competitive world. Far reaching educational reforms without losing on the noble, spiritual values of the country are required to be undertaken for this purpose. Globalization and commercialization of education is becoming a reality and India being a prominent economy, in so far as the concern of human resources is concerned, cannot afford to ignore these changes. It is the right time to identify our interests in this changed educational environment and draw up a strategy to serve them. Under this backdrop, the present study has been conducted. It has been concluded that there is very less awareness, in general, regarding GATS provisions among university teachers across categories of lecturers, readers and professors in the universities. The Universities also face constraints of resources, undue interference from government and lacks autonomy to compete in the wake of privatization of higher education, therefore Universities require a great deal to transform and restructure themselves to compete successfully with foreign universities, owing to free trade and implementation of GATS in India.
- Subjects
INDIA; WORLD Trade Organization; HIGHER education &; economics; EDUCATIONAL change research; GLOBALIZATION; DEVELOPED countries
- Publication
BVIMR Management Edge, 2012, Vol 5, Issue 1, p9
- ISSN
0976-0431
- Publication type
Article