... in nature and function from other services that can be traded commercially and it is unsuited to the principles of the free market. This essay also argues that the commercialisation of higher education has a negative impact on the social equality. There is a tendency that higher education is becoming a commodity due to globalisation. The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) facilitates this through opening up all walks of our life, including education, to international capital, and then transforms higher education into just another commodity that can be traded in a free market governed by the laws of supply and demand. The GATS and other agreements on trade in services are changing the conception of education into 'a tradable commodity' (Kuehn, 2000:2). It is unacceptable to trade education because it is naturally one of the basic human rights. Education is a fundamental human right that is confirmed by the Universal ...

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