850 College European University Assn. Status Reports on US-Europe Privatization/Liberalisation Deals

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GLOBAL PRIVATIZATION STATUS REPORTS + MEDIA

Europe - US - Canada

http://www.eua.be/Libraries/publication/EUA_Statement_TTIP.pdf

http://www.eua.be/Libraries/higher-education/ttip-update-no-5-january-2016.pdf

http://www.eua.be/Libraries/higher-education/GATS_en.pdf

http://www.eua.be/Libraries/higher-education/TTIP_background_paper_jan_2014.pdf

http://www.eua.be/Libraries/higher-education/TTIP_Update_3_december_2014.pdf

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Because apparently India's press has still managed to avoid the high level of corporate control, or perhaps because India actually has/(had?) a Constitutional right to education - there has miraculously been a debate about the normally suppressed GATS that never occurred in the US in 1994 when the GATS was passed as the "Uruguay Round Agreements Act" basically giving away our elf-imagined rights to have a government communicate such important changes to the public it seems that whatever Administration was in power in 1994 did NOT. However, one can read about the issues that we should have been able to read about 20 years ago, in the Indian (the most populous nation in the world) press over the last year. (My hunch is that the US may manage to get them to signup to abolish public health care and education in exchange for the commercial model by promising them ~~~access to healthcare~~~ access to lots of "Mode Four" jobs.

Higher Education: A Public Good or Commodity for Trade - Barcelona II Nobel Meeting
http://gu.friends-partners.org/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/List%20Distributions/2005/MTI1721_12-15-05/Barcelona%20II%20Nobel%20Meeting%20--%20Higher%20Education%20as%20a%20Public%20Good.pdf

http://www.iatp.org/files/GATS_and_Public_Service_Systems.htm (Explanation of Scope of original GATS agreement - Nations that have no private colleges at all and don't take money can sleep well, WTO/GATS/TISA wont take their public education)

The WTO and the Commodification of Education Through GATS
http://www.bris.ac.uk/education/people/academicStaff/edslr/publications/04slr


Fight against inclusion of higher education in WTO
http://thecompanion.in/fight-against-inclusion-of-higher-education-in-wto/

http://www.samacheerkalvi.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/EU-USA-Cd-Oppose-GATS_en.pdf

http://thewire.in/2015/12/14/its-not-wise-to-trade-in-higher-education-17295/

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-07-11/news/64308981_1_general-agreement-education-sector-service-charges

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/will-the-gats-close-on-higher-education/article8042337.ece

Wikileaks shows education still under threat in TISA deal (New Zealand)

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1506/S00030/wikileaks-shows-education-still-under-threat-in-tisa-deal.htm