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Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation, and Higher Education in North America

The Emergence of a New Market under NAFTA?

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  • In separate case studies, higher education policy is analyzed in Canada, Mexico, and the USA using a common theoretical framework that identifies economic globalisation, international trade liberalisation, and post-industrialisation as common structural factors exerting a significant, if often indirect, influence on higher education in the three countries

Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 4)

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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth, USA

    Clyde W. Barrow

  • National Polytechnical Institute, Mexico City, Mexico

    Sylvie Didou-Aupetit

  • Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada

    John Mallea

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation, and Higher Education in North America

  • Book Subtitle: The Emergence of a New Market under NAFTA?

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

  • Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0987-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1791-9Published: 31 December 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1862-6Published: 31 December 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0987-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1571-0378

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 255

  • Topics: Education, general, Political Science, Economic Growth

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