{"id":7939,"date":"2015-02-04T09:55:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T09:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress72\/?p=26949"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:26","slug":"universities-wary-of-international-free-trade-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2015\/02\/04\/universities-wary-of-international-free-trade-agreements\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities wary of international free trade agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <b>Universities in Europe are worried about the international trade  agreements being negotiated between Europe, Canada and the US. The  resulting treaties may pose a threat to higher education.<\/b>  <\/p>\n<p>  Negotiators are presently working on two international agreements intended to boost the free trade in services: TTIP and TiSA. The universities fear that higher education will also be included in this range of services \u2013 and come under the sway of free market forces as a result. This becomes clear from a statement issued by the European university association EUA. Its signatories include various Dutch universities.<\/p>\n<p>  <b>Illegitimate state support<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  If the international free trade in services becomes a fact, will public funding start to be considered illegitimate state support? In other words: will commercial foreign providers of education services soon become eligible for the same funding as public institutions? Things won\u2019t go as fast as all that, in the view of the negotiators: countries are allowed to determine for themselves what they consider public or private. They can continue to work with their own policies for public higher education.<\/p>\n<p>  In that case, the universities want to see this exception explicitly included in the treaty text. Because the institutions fear that the document will not be clear enough on this matter. At present, higher education does not unambiguously fall within the category of \u2018public services\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>  <b>Grey area<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Indeed, there is already something of a grey area between private and public. State-funded universities do a lot of commissioned research \u2013 not just in the Netherlands, incidentally \u2013 and occasionally also offer courses that receive no public funding whatsoever. Furthermore, we can already find a wide range of private service providers active in the market \u2013 in the Netherlands, LOI and NCOI for example. 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