Analysis On Educational Service Trade And Exploration Of Chinese Educational Market Development

GATS is designed to increase trade liberalization internationally, and includes 'education' as a service sector. Education is increasingly seen as a commodity to be purchased by a consumer in order to build a 'skill set' to be used in the marketplace or a product to be bought and sold by multinational corporations, academic institutions that have transmogrified themselves into businesses, and other providers.Trade in higher education services is a billion dollar industry, including recruitment of international students, establishment of university campuses abroad, franchised provision and online learning. Some view GATS as a positive force, accelerating the influx of private and foreign providers of higher education into countries where domestic capacity is inadequate, A more negative view concerned that liberalization may compromise important elements of quality assurance and permit private and foreign providers to monopolize the best students and most profitable programmes.Under the macrostructure of GATS, there are specific components including regulations, concepts and barriers, etc. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 provide a general introduction to GATS and its components. Chief theoretical foundations of trade in educational services today and the four modes of service supply are listed to constitute Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. The five main English speaking countries have established relatively sophisticated domestic educational service markets and they each have distinguished image and virtue. Several Asian countries are on the move to gain profits from trade in educational services. All these countries' practices and regulations are studied in Chapter 5 in order to better understand international relations and find a competitive position for Chinese educational service trade. Joining WTO, the Chinese educational circle has actively adapted to the international situation of a polarized world, economic globalization and the rapid development of science and technology. Chapter 6 outlines existing Chinese situation and trends in the trade in educational services, and then Chapter 7 focuses on the comparative advantages and disadvantages with regard to this trade. In the last Chapter, it also seeks to put forward some suggestions for better participation in educational service trade in the future.