by Robert Sedgwick, Editor, WENR GATS in a Nutshell The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is the first international trade agreement to cover trade in services as opposed to products. It was formulated in 1995 during the Uruguay Round of trade talks and…
By Robert Sedgwick, Editor, WENR ACCESS OUR LATEST PROFILE ON EDUCATION IN CANADA Education in Canada differs from province to province, owing largely to the country’s regionalism and binational (French and English) character. In contrast to the French-speaking province of Quebec, Ontario’s system of education…
by Philip G. Altbach, Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College A key debate in the United States, as in other countries, relates to the cost of higher education, whether higher education is affordable, especially for…
by Robert Sedgwick, Editor, WENR Until 1989, when the communist Eastern Bloc collapsed, the educational systems in former Czechoslovakia and Hungary were based largely on the Soviet model of higher education. Following independence, new laws were passed in both counties that ended the state monopoly…
by Robert Sedgwick, Editor, WENR In the past three issues of WENR we’ve presented four countries that are in the process of implementing significant educational reforms in line with the Bologna Declaration, which was signed in 1999. As we have seen, France, Germany, Italy and…