Author: Sara Maneiro
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The Diagnostic Phase of the Strategic Support Program to Universities of Peru advances with surveys, interviews and discussion groups
September 4th / We continue in the first Diagnostic Phase of the Program to support the design and implementation of strategies for the continuity of the ... -
Higher education is not a burden but a key piece to face the crisis: Francesc Pedró
On Thursday, September 10th, the director of UNESCO IESALC, Francesc Pedró, participated in the online conference «Towards the reopening: quality and equity as priorities in higher ... -
Education is the main instrument to fight the social inequalities exacerbated by the pandemic
During the opening of the dialogue table convened by UNESCO on September 10, Audrey Azoulay, Director General of UNESCO, recalled that COVID-19 has an effect on ... -
Biography of Francesc Pedró, director of IESALC
Francesc Pedró is since May 2019 the Director of the UNESCO Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. He joined UNESCO’s education sector ... -
#18Sept Panel of experts will debate on sustainable Changes to Higher Education Curricula
On Friday, September 18th, 2020, at 1:30 pm. (Spain time) Andrew Jack, Global Education Editor of the Financial Times; Francesc Pedró, Director of UNESCO International Institute ... -
IESALC and AUR analyze impacts and challenges facing higher education in its transit from presentiality to online education / AUR
Francesc Pedró, Director of the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC ) was the central speaker at the Webinar ... -
UNESCO convenes virtual roundtable to analyze the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean
The impact of the health crisis caused by COVID-19 is dramatic and, according to data from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), ... -
Enrollments open for the Global Lesson in Social and Emotional Learning of the UNESCO MGIEP
The UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) and Life University´s Centre for Compassion, Integrity and Secular Ethics (CCISE) launched the ... -
International Colloquium “Impact of COVID-19 on Education” of the University of Cartagena
The RUDECOLOMBIA Doctorate in Educational Sciences of the University of Cartagena organized the International Colloquium «Impact of COVID-19 on Education, on August 18th, 19th and 20th, ... -
IESALC-PMESUT Strategic Program establishes lines of action for Peruvian universities
Since last August 14, 2020, the first start-up meetings of Phase 1 of the Diagnosis of the Program to support the design and implementation of strategies ... -
1,128 United Nations volunteers joined efforts to fight against COVID-19
The UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC) recognizes the work made by the 1,128 United Nations volunteers who joined ... -
OREALC, ECLAC and UNESCO Report “Education in the time of COVID-19”
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused an unprecedented crisis in all areas. In the field of education, this emergency has led to the massive closure ... -
Online edition MLW 2020: Call for proposals, symposium & innovations are now open
The call for workshops, symposium and innovations for the online edition of Mobile Learning Week (MLW) 2020, is open. MLW will be held from 12 to ... -
Instructors Believe Students More Likely to Cheat When Class Is Online
One outcome for the shift to online classes, according to the college and university instructors now teaching them, is that students will be more likely to ... -
ESAL Journal Monograph on COVID-19
Based on high-level scientific, academic and professional knowledge, the most recent monograph (number 8) of the Journal of Higher Education in Latin America ESAL (July-December, 2020) ... -
#MOOC | Journalism without labels: informative treatment on forced displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas of The University of Texas at Austin (United States) organizes the MOOC “Journalism without labels: informative treatment on ... -
The role of universities in post-pandemic economic recovery
UNNE Medios / The UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO-IESALC) director, Francesc Pedró, agreed with and highlighted the speech ... -
Impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis in HEI: responses to the emergency and digital transformation of higher education
By José Antonio Quinteiro Goris | The Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the European Union and Cooperation of the Government ... -
A newspaper on education, health and economy in face of COVID 19
The most recent publication of the magazine Un Periódico, (A Newspaper) of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia UNC (National University of Colombia) dedicates all of its ... -
UNESCO IESALC will provide technical assistance to strengthen virtual higher education in Peru
The UNESCO Institute specialized in higher education was selected, through an open call by the Ministry of Education of Peru and the Inter-American Development Bank, to ... -
COVID-19 in Haiti: The Challenges of Continuity in Education
From July 2nd to the 30th 2020, the UNESCO Office in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, organized a series of webinars called Haïti face à la pandémie de COVID-19: ...
