Author: Yara Bastidas
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Racism in the Academy: Global perspectives on multiple forms of racism and struggles for equity
Racism in the Academy: Global perspectives on multiple forms of racism and struggles for equity is the webinar to be hosted by the UNESCO International Institute ... -
The transition to hybrid education will translate into a greater quality of teacher-student interaction, Francesc Pedró
“The use of management and e-learning platforms has made more progress in the world of higher education than in school education,” said UNESCO IESALC Director Francesc ... -
Higher education must promote sustainable development and train citizens committed to the planet, Yuma Inzolia
In 2017 UNESCO IESALC attended the Education 2030 conferences organized by Virtual Educa, a space in which it agreed to promote these processes of dialogue to ... -
Teachers at the center of higher education recovery
By Francesc Pedró | Since the beginning of the pandemic, most of the efforts of higher education systems around the world have focused on guaranteeing pedagogical continuity, ... -
Call for proposals for the Learning Design and Education for Sustainable Development #ESDBootcamp 2022
As stated in the UNESCO Learn for our planet report (2021): “The way we currently live is not sustainable. Urgent change is needed, but lasting change ... -
Higher education must be on the international education agenda | University World News
Francesc Pedró | The absence of higher education from the debates around the international education agenda may hide the relative importance that the sector has for ... -
INQAAHE 30th Anniversary celebratory event
Within the frames of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education’s (INQAAHE) 30th anniversary celebration and to officially launch the INQAAHE International Headquarters ... -
Fighting climate change: actions from the Universities
The United Nations Academic Impact Initiative (UNAI) has been organizing global conversations in multiple languages with educators, researchers and students to discuss priorities for the future, ... -
Open call for the 7th Edition of the Science by Women Program for visiting African fellows in Spanish centers
Deadline for proposals submission October 30, 2021 The Women for Africa Foundation (FMxA), in line with its mission of contributing to the development of Africa through ... -
“There is a triple disconnection in higher education”, Francesc Pedró
At the TICAL Conference and the Latin American e-Science Meeting held online on September 2nd, UNESCO IESALC’s director Francesc Pedró said that there is currently a ... -
39 Peruvian University Students received laptops and tablets in the digital leaders competition
During the month of August of this year, 39 young Peruvians received the prizes corresponding to the Digital Leaders Competition, broadcast live via Facebook on January ... -
#May2022 – 3rd World Higher Education Conference (WHEC2022)
In the view of the global health crisis, UNESCO World Higher Education Conference, initially planned to be held in 2021, will take place from 18 to ... -
Call for articles submission for the next ESS journal (Vol. 34, No. 1-2022) – Dossier B
UNESCO IESALC invites to submit articles for the thematic dossier of the journal Educación Superior y Sociedad (ESS) “Dossier B: Achieving mutually inclusive internationalization of higher education in Latin ... -
Extension of the deadline for reception of articles for Volume 34 of ESS Journal and its thematic dossier “Quality of Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean”
The Journal Educación Superior y Sociedad ESS (Higher Education and Society) of the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC) ... -
Webinar release: Thinking higher and beyond; our experts talk about the futures of higher education
By Eglis Chacón | On 25 May 2021, UNESCO-IESALC launched the report “Thinking Higher and Beyond Perspectives on the Futures of Higher Education to 2050” with ... -
The New Regional Convention from the perspective of the Latin American university
Only 1 in 10 students in Latin America travel abroad; two out of three go to developed countries in North America and Western Europe, and only ... -
Farewell to South African higher education expert Professor Michael Cross
The team of global higher education experts convened by IESALC in March 2021. Professor Cross is in the middle of the fourth row in this composite ... -
The Inaugural Issue of UNESCO-ICHEI’s Flagship Publication CLOUD
The inaugural issue of CLOUD, the flagship publication of the International Centre for Higher Education Innovation under the auspices of UNESCO (UNESCO-ICHEI), was officially launched on ... -
Futures of education in the post-pandemic era / New Straits Times
Azulkifli Abdul Razak stresses in this article the importance for higher education to focus on “…human and non-human – based on holistic universal values in creating ... -
Launch of the 2020 Annual Report
The UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC) presents its 2020 Annual Report in an interactive and brief format that ... -
Publication of the book “Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge”
The book Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge, edited by Michelle Stack (University of Toronto Press 2021), addresses the lack of empirical research behind ...
