Yearly Archives: 2019
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Ideas for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage through Higher Education
From December 9 to 14, 2019, the Agora Conference Center in Bogota became the scene for the display of cultural expressions from Colombia and ... -
7th Higher Education in the World Report strengthens the interrelations between science, technology and humanities
“From politicians, to technicians, regulators, academics from different fields and financiers, everyone is convinced that humanistic education and cultural experience are key factors for ... -
Bringing the international education community together / World Education Blog
By Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO / As 2019 draws to a close and prompted by my colleague Julia Gillard’s recent blog, ... -
Towards the ratification of the new regional convention on higher education
In the 1970s, UNESCO proposed the creation of an instrument that would call on the member states of Latin America and the Caribbean to ... -
7th Higher Education in the World Report / GUNI
Under the title ‘Humanities and Higher Education: generating synergies between Science, Technology and Humanities’, the 7th edition of the HEIW Report focuses on the ... -
La mala educación / Ojo Público
Hace unos días, la ministra de Economía, María Antonieta Alva, dejó en claro la batalla que hay detrás de la implementación de la reforma ... -
UNESCO adopts the first United Nations international treaty on higher education
UNESCO / On 25 November 2019, UNESCO’s Member States adopted the first United Nations convention on higher education when the plenary of the 40th ... -
Call for the nomination of candidates to IESALC’s Governing Board
The Secretariat of the Governing Council of the UNESCO Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC), in compliance with the ... -
Three webinars to reflect on the main challenges of higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean
Within the framework of the celebration of World Access to Higher Education Day, on November 26, 2019, the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education ... -
The Secretaría General Iberoamericana (Iberian American General Secretariat) and the UNESCO sign an agreement to cooperate in education, science and culture / SEGIB
On November 19th, in Paris, the Iberian-American general secretary, Rebeca Grynspan, and the general director of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, signed an agreement memorandum to ... -
IESALC: Technology at the of the service of the humanization of teaching and learning processes
From Bogota and the Dominican Republic, also from the Hural and Chiclayo provinces north of Lima, came the commentaries and congratulations for the live ... -
Los recortes en ciencia sacuden a América Latina / El País
Los recortes presupuestarios y la baja inversión en ciencia, tecnología e innovación se han convertido en tendencia en la región, causando daños a la ... -
Walling off teaching from research will block the road to eminence / THE
By Brian Schmidt / Of the many things I worry about as a university leader, the threat to the hallowed Humboldtian university model, where ... -
Global meeting of education ministers and university leaders paves way for greater inclusion and mobility in higher education / UNESCO
For the first time in UNESCO’s history, ministers of education and university leaders came together to envisage international measures to improve inclusion and mobility ... -
Ministers meet at UNESCO to discuss inclusion and mobility in higher education
The first global ministerial meeting to debate inclusion and mobility in higher education was held on November 13, 2019 in Room II at the ... -
UN Secretary-General highlights UNESCO’s global leadership in education
Paris, 12 November—The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, Tuesday morning stressed UNESCO’s essential mandate in education and pleaded in favour of multilateralism ... -
In higher ed tech, where’s the ‘hype’ and what’s the promise?/ Education Dive
Every few years new technology emerges that promises to improve student success and make it easier for college officials to do their jobs. Some ... -
IESALC will moderate panel on mobility in higher education at the 40th General Conference of UNESCO
Currently about 5 million people study outside their countries, and 2.5 million of them do so outside their home region. Many of these people ... -
Why is a Regional Convention for the recognition of higher education is necessary?
When a student decides to leave his/her country to study in a higher education institution in another country, he/she is looking to complement and ... -
What is the Global Convention on higher education? / UNESCO
Imagine a world where students can swiftly move around the world and pursue their studies without hitting any roadblocks. Well we might be one ... -
Monitoring the CRES 2018-2028 Action Plan in IESALC’s Working Program
“The Latin American and Caribbean region lacks a critical mass of human capital for research, with a rate of 1.35 researchers for every one ...