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Member States meet to adopt the Regional Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Degrees and Diplomas in Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean

By Sara Maneiro
24 September, 2019
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International Conference of States, Argentina, july 11 2019

Higher education leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean met at the International Conference of States, on July 11, 2019, held at the San Martín Palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to approve the New UNESCO Convention for the Recognition of Studies, Degrees and Diplomas in Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. This is a fundamental instrument for harmonizing and guaranteeing fair and non-discriminatory recognition procedures among the member states in order to make student academic mobility easier, an intention that is part of the Sustainable Development Goal 4 and the global commitment “that no one be left behind”.

The first day began with words of welcome by Jorge Faurie, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Argentina, who ratified the importance of the Conference: “The region understood that it was necessary to renew the Convention. I urge you to achieve it. Our country has always given an important role to education, an instrument to increase learning opportunities for students and researchers”. He also expressed his wish to present the Convention at the UNESCO 40th General Conference that will take place in November 2019, at the headquarters of the organization.

Borhene Chakroun, director of the UNESCO Division of Lifelong Learning Policies and Systems, took the floor to thank the Argentine government for the political and logistical support in the materialization of the event, and recalled that Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) was the first region to approve, in 1970, a regional agreement for the recognition of studies, degrees and diplomas.

“Throughout these days, we hope to discuss and agree, particularly on the importance of the Right to Education, reaffirming the postulate of Higher Education as a social public asset, a universal human right, and a duty of the State,” said Alejandro Finocchiaro, Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology of Argentina, to representatives of member states, international institutes and observers.

Organized by the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC), with the support of the Argentine government, the Conference gives closure to the Convention’s modernization process, led since 2015 by the Institute, and which consisted of working sessions and intergovernmental consultation meetings around the original text.

Francesc Pedró, director of IESALC, confirmed in his welcoming words the commitment of the Institute to support the implementation of the renewed Convention, reaffirming its mission as a specialized organization of UNESCO, with the mandate to collaborate with the region’s governments in the achievement of their goals concerning higher education. “This will be carried out through actions that include strategies for the approach and technical assistance for the Convention’s applicability; development of tools to facilitate its operationalization; the establishment of partnerships to share experiences and good practices; participation spaces for higher education institutions, as well as articulation between them and governments in relation to the recognition of titles and related topics; and monitoring the effects of the Convention on academic mobility”, he said.

The detailed revision of the text of the new Convention will culminate on Saturday, July 13, with its adoption and  the Declaration of the Conference. Additionally, the Sistema Iberoamericano de Aseguramiento de la Calidad en la Educación Superior-SIACES (Ibero-American System of Quality Assurance in Higher Education) will participate with an exhibition on good practices in the accreditation of the quality of HE in the Region and the consideration of common technical aspects. At the end, Borhene Chakroun will speak the closing words of the meeting.

Challenges and opportunities for mobility in LAC

Conference on mobility and higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean by IESALC

In his paper “Mobility in higher education (HE) in Latin America: challenges and opportunities for a renewed Agreement”, the IESALC director advanced the results of the IESALC report on academic mobility in the region. This makes it clear  that the number of HE students in the world continues to grow: between 2012 and 2017, the rate went from 198 million to 220, an increase of 10%, while in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) it went from 23.7 to 27.4 million, with an approximate growth of 16%. However, explained Pedró, LAC remains the second region in the world where the growth of mobility has been the lowest, very far from the increases experienced by the countries of Central Asia where the volume has practically doubled, or Southeast Asia where it has grown more than a third.

In this context, of the 5 million students that are mobilized in the world each year, only 176 thousand, 3.5% of the total, choose a country in Latin America as destination. Of these, 69% come from the same region, an additional 12% from North America and Western Europe and the rest from other regions. This increase is explained, among other reasons, due to “the growing importance of Spanish as a second language of school learning” in the international arena. “Argentina is the great attraction pole of international students, of which 84% come from the same region, while the preferred destination for Latin American and Caribbean students is North America and Western Europe,” he said.

He stressed that regional mobility faces major challenges such as demographic transformations, migrations, technological developments, the emergence of new poles of academic attraction and the process of configuring a regional space of knowledge. “Given these challenges, the renewal of the Regional Convention for the Recognition of Studies, Degrees and Diplomas in Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean can become a true platform for the revitalization of regional mobility”, he concluded. The IESALC report on mobility will be available in Spanish and English in September on the Institute’s digital platform www.iesalc.unesco.org.


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