GLOBAL: WTO promises on higher education liberalisation shelved by talks collapse
July 1st, 2008
By Keith Nuthall
Plans to sweep away some restrictions preventing private universities and higher education service providers from teaching, researching and examining in foreign countries have been put on ice at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
This follows the collapse of negotiations at the July ministerial meeting of the WTO IN Geneva, Switzerland, which had lasted 10 days. Talks on liberalising the trade in all goods and services for the WTO's 152 members foundered over the protection of developing country food producers.
However, the WTO's Doha ...
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