Measures affecting cross border exchange and investment in higher education in the APEC Region, May 2009

This study is designed to facilitate cross-border exchange and investment in higher education by identifying positive and negative measures affecting that exchange. It offers: a survey of actual policy measures affecting cross-border exchange and investment in higher education services across all modes of supply for [Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation] APEC economies; a comprehensive and up-to-date reassessment of policies and practices affecting cross-border exchange and investment in higher education services; and recommendations for facilitating the expansion of free and open cross-border exchange and investment in higher education services in the APEC region. The study has used the Education Network of the APEC Human Resources Development Working Group, with support from the APEC Group on Services, to complete a survey of actual regulatory policies currently affecting the delivery and exchange of higher education services in a number of APEC member economies. Reasonably complete responses have been received from nine of the 21 APEC economies - Australia, Chile, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Chinese Taipei and Thailand. Incomplete responses were also received from Brunei and Canada.

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