Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation, and Higher Education in North America

1. Front Matter

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2. Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation, and the Knowledge Economy

   • Clyde W. Barrow, Sylvie Didou-Aupetit, John Mallea

   Pages 1-21

3. The Premise and the Promise of North American Higher Education

   • Clyde W. Barrow, Sylvie Didou-Aupetit, John Mallea

   Pages 23-41

4. Globalisation, NAFTA, and Higher Education in the USA

   • Clyde W. Barrow, Sylvie Didou-Aupetit, John Mallea

   Pages 43-94

5. Globalisation, NAFTA, and Higher Education in Canada

   • Clyde W. Barrow, Sylvie Didou-Aupetit, John Mallea

   Pages 95-122

6. Globalisation, NAFTA, and Higher Education in Mexico

   • Clyde W. Barrow, Sylvie Didou-Aupetit, John Mallea

   Pages 123-163

7. The Triumph of the Market Model in North American Higher Education

   • Clyde W. Barrow, Sylvie Didou-Aupetit, John Mallea

   Pages 165-186

8. Back Matter

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Since the mid-1970s, economic and educational developments in Canada, Mexico, and the USA have been influenced by two parallel trends: (1) the resurgence of glob­ al economic competition and (2) the active promotion of knowledge-intensive, serv­ ice based economies. Both trends have been reinforced by the liberalisation of inter­ national trade under the rubric of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has accelerated these trends in all three countries by providing the framework for an integrated regional economy in North America designed to compete against comparable trading blocs centred in Japan and the European Union. The purpose of this study is to examine the developing relationship between trade liberalisation, post-industrialisation, and higher education in Canada, Mexico, and the USA. The larger trends and linkages that we identitY are by no means confined to these three countries. We have chosen to focus on Canada, Mexico, and the USA, because the adoption of the North American Free Trade Agreement has accelerated the devel­ opment of economic policies in these countries, which identitY higher education as a central component of each country's new competitiveness strategy. As a conse­ quence, government policy-makers and higher education decision-makers are responding with targeted initiatives to promote the internationalisation of higher education generally and to promote trilateral co-operation among North American higher education institutions specifically.

• Policy
• Political Science
• Professor
• economy
• education
• education policy
• higher education
• international trade
• university

• University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth, USA

  Clyde W. Barrow

• National Polytechnical Institute, Mexico City, Mexico

  Sylvie Didou-Aupetit

• Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada

  John Mallea

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