Implications for North – South Dialogue Globalisation and Higher Education

Trade in Education: What For? Trade in Education: Managing the internationalisation of post- secondary education

, “the States Parties,… believing in full and equal opportunities for education for all, in the unrestricted pursuit of objective truth, and in the free exchange of ideas and knowledge, are agreed and determined to develop and increase the means of communication between their peoples and to employ these means for the purposes of mutual understanding and a truer and more perfect knowledge of each other’s lives.”

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Free Trade: Makes the majority richer

A does MANGOS better than B A does MOTORBIKES better than B BUT A and B still gain by trading mangos and motorbikes

Free Trade: Makes the majority richer BUT Trade is rigged

THE GLASS OF GLOBALISATION: HALF FULL OR HALF EMPTY?

Countries that engage with globalisation do better than those that do not.

‘When goods move… …soldiers don’t.’

Globalisation develops and increases the means of communication between peoples and helps them to mutual understanding and a truer and more perfect knowledge of each other’s lives.

GATS: the four modes: 1) Specialists teaching temporarily in another country (THE PRESENCE OF NATURAL PERSONS) 2) Institutions that set up shop abroad (COMMERCIAL PRESENCE) 3) People who go to study in another country (CONSUMPTION ABROAD) 4) The movement of courses between countries (CROSS BORDER SUPPLY)

THE PRESENCE OF NATURAL PERSONS Teachers and researchers working temporarily in another country

COMMERCIAL PRESENCE Local branches, satellite campuses, twinning partnerships, franchising

Commercial Presence 1.Richmond College: The American International University in London

Commercial Presence 1.Richmond College: The American International University in London 2. The United States Open University

Commercial Presence 1.Richmond College: The American International University in London 2. The United States Open University 3. UK Open University in Central Europe

Commercial Presence 1.Richmond College: The American International University in London 2. The United States Open University 3. UK Open University in Central Europe 4. The Arab Open University

COMMERCIAL PRESENCE can be an extremely effective way for the IMPORTING COUNTRY to expand and strengthen its higher education system

CONSUMPTION ABROAD Students who go to another country

Consumption Abroad GAINS: Funds Friends

Consumption Abroad GAINS: Funds Friends SNAGS Cost Brain drain

CROSS BORDER SUPPLY Movement of courses and programmes

Cross Border Supply GAINS: Low Cost No Brain Drain

PARTNERSHIPS are a matter of PRINCIPLE and PRAGMATISM

Trade in Education: What For? Trade in Education: Managing the internationalisation of post- secondary education

Conclusions Trade in higher education is: - a means of communication between peoples - expands and strengthens the HE system in the importing country

Expanding higher education is a vital foundation for Education for All

Education for All