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POINT OF VIEW
The idea that higher education is a commercial product, to be bought and sold like bananas or airplanes, has reached the global marketplace. The World Trade Organization will be considering a series of proposals to make the importing and exporting of higher education subject to the complex rules of W.T.O. protocols -- but that would free international...
Why Higher Education Is Not a Global Commodity
By PHILIP G. ALTBACHThe idea that higher education is a commercial product, to be bought and sold like bananas or airplanes, has reached the global marketplace. The World Trade Organization will be considering a series of proposals to make the importing and exporting of higher education subject to the complex rules of W.T.O. protocols -- but that would free international...
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