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Conversations in Brussels emphasized the pressing need to amplify the voices of young people in decision-making processes, with education emerging as a central pillar of concern and opportunity in the…
At the meeting of States Parties to the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications, UNESCO’s ADG for Education highlighted the contribution of the UNESCO IESALC portal on higher education …
Have you ever wondered to what extent higher education quality assurance agencies around the world are autonomous? UNESCO IESALC’s sixth Policy Insight examines this across 146 countries drawing on …
Have you ever wondered to what extent do governments rely on national quality assurance agencies to guide their higher education systems? UNESCO IESALC’s fifth Policy Insight examines this across 14…
UNESCO IESALC and Times Higher Education report on Higher Education Contributions to Sustainable Cities finds collaboration between HEIs and local governments key in building sustainable urban spaces …
Are you aware of which countries require prospective students to pass a national exam to access higher education (HE)? UNESCO IESALC releases its fourth Policy Insight drawing on data from the HE Poli…
This publication is intended to be a reference guide and a tool to support public officials and institutions of higher education, mainly in neighboring countries, which receive a large number of Venez…
Do you know how governments shape higher education through national plans or strategies? Today, UNESCO-IESALC publishes its third Policy Insight revealing findings on the types of national plans steer…
Have you ever wondered how higher education systems are governed across the world? Today, UNESCO-IESALC publishes its second Policy Insight unveiling findings on the level of centralization of HE poli…
UNESCO-IESALC is publishing a first Policy Insight on free public higher education. This short digest highlights, in a comparative way, insights from the HE Policy Observatory regarding one question: …
This platform displays comparative information on nearly 150 countries through 40 indicators drawn from a battery of 150 variables and over 22.000 data points.…
Francesc Pedró | This contribution has opted for an approach to the transformation of higher education that attempts to describe and analyze trends of which we are just beginning to have signs.…
In the framework of the commemoration of World Teachers’ Day, Francesc Pedró, Director of UNESCO IESALC, invites to proactively address this problem to ensure the quality and sustainability of higher…
UNESCO IESALC presented the guide “Harnessing the Era of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education. A Primer for Higher Education Stakeholders”…
Some of the skills that need to be developed for tomorrow’s world of higher education include critical thinking, adaptiveness, global citizenship, resilience and creativity.…
Displaced persons are often denied the right to education, and higher education remains a distant aspiration for most: less than 6% of refugees are enrolled in higher education.…
UNESCO IESALC initiated in ECOSOC Youth Forum 2023 a South-South intergenerational dialogue to explore synergies with and for youths, in order to build bridges to innovate higher education…
This blog post is based on the interventions of Dr Francesc Pedró, Director, UNESCO IESALC and Dr Axel Rivas, Director of the School of Education at the University of San Andrés and Academic Directo…
The 2019 Convention opens up a range of opportunities to build a regional framework for the recognition of higher education studies, degrees and diplomas inspired by shared principles and values.…
To celebrate the International Women’s Day 2023, UNESCO IESALC held a Fireside Chat with nine female innovators…
In recognition of International Women’s Day, UNESCO-IESALC has published a policy brief to outline the current situation of gender inequalities in academia and to propose policy measures to increase …
Join our Fireside Chat on March 6th to celebrate women and girls in innovation and higher education and engage in a conversation on how female innovators transform education and beyond. …
Everyone has a role to play in this societal journey to transforming education, including you and me. And the journey starts right here, right now! …
UNESCO IESALC holds First Youth Dialogue on the Right to Higher Education in Latin America …
We do not yet have sufficient data to measure the real impact of the pandemic on the financing of higher education in Latin America. Until they arrive, we can make do with some indications gathered by…
Let us use this celebration not only to recognize and celebrate the teachers’ commitment but also to initiate the debate about the profession’s transformation and how to combat the risks of its precar…
UNESCO IESALC led the chapter dedicated to higher education in the most recent report by UNESCO, UNICEF and ECLAC on the monitoring of SDG-4 towards 2030 in Latin America and the Caribbean. …
UNESCO IESALC played a leading role in the third UNESCO World Higher Education Conference (WHEC), facilitating and/or participating in 17 events, contributing to several background documents and offic…
It’s not a secret that Latin America and the Caribbean have some problems with the quality of life for the majority of their population – issues that are impossible to solve without the abilities …
It is in UNESCO’s DNA to promote the internationalisation of higher education as this can contribute to its ultimate mission of building a culture of peace in the minds of men and women.…
Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) commits all countries to equal access to affordable and quality education, including higher education, by 2030. This means that education systems need to be gove…
During the Third UNESCO World Higher Education Conference (WHEC), UNESCO IESALC released its inaugural report on international aid in tertiary education (TE). This report highlights the significant de…
As on every June 15, the Latin American and Caribbean region commemorates the events of Cordoba in 1918 and its University Reform movement. …
By Emma Sabzalieva and José Antonio Quinteiro | April 2022 Background: The notions of “public goods”, “common goods” and “global common goods” have often been used interchangeably. The bo…
January 29, 2022 | By Pola Lem Academics urge policymakers to tackle ‘root issues’ including corruption, unemployment and quality education Weeks after deadly protests rocked Kazakhstan, academic…
By Bosen Lily Liu, Dana Abdrasheva, Eglis Chacón, Luz Gamarra Caballero, Simon Wanda Makokha, and Emma Sabzalieva. 24 January 2022 | Education is a universal human right. As an integral part of th…
Capstone Projects have become an important modality of curriculum development in the quest to bring students closer to their experiences as professionals in the labour market. A Capstone Pro…
Dana Abdrasheva and Emma Sabzalieva | 14 January 2022 – Kazakhstan has been in the world’s headlines after a series of protests over energy price hikes that began at the start of January rap…
Blog | By Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias [1] Participating in a meeting that celebrates the 30th anniversary of the journal “Higher Education and Society” (Educación Superior y Sociedad) [2…
Photo: Some of the report editors, guest speakers at the launch event and the Director of IESALC By Luz Gamarra Caballero | On 25, November, 2021, UNESCO-IESALC launched the report “Pathw…
By Emma Sabzalieva | UNESCO IESALC’s research and analysis on virtual student mobility (VSM) aims to better understand the potential of VSM. During the pandemic, 60% of higher education inst…
By Ana Lúcia Gazzola | First of all, I would like to talk about my joy at participating in this IESALC event, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Higher Education and Society journal. At IE…
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, preserving above all th…
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 international development aid and …
By José Antonio Quinteiro Goris | The state of alarm derived from the COVID-19 pandemic was a trauma for most Latin American and Caribbean universities, particularly regarding the continuity of…
By Francesc Pedró | It may still seem too early to start worrying about higher education’s presence in the recovery plans when millions of students are still unable to return to the classr…
The portal www.ahoraeducacion.com published the call for the course on UNESCO’s New Regional Convention. “In order to contribute to a better understanding of the New UNESCO Regional Conven…
The Virtual Forum “The New Regional Convention: challenges and opportunities for its implementation” opened with welcoming remarks from the director of the UNESCO International I…
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 a webinar attended by more th…
By Francesc Pedró and Harold Mera | These past days, the Education Commission of the Peruvian Congress approved the ruling of the Law of Organization and Functions of the Ministry of Education which…
By Daniele Vieira, Takudzwa Mutize and Jaime Roser Chinchilla | 21 December 2020 A recent study developed by UNESCO IESALC entitled Towards universal access to higher education: international trends w…
By Henning Jensen-Pennington¹ and Yamileth Angulo-Ugalde ² Introduction In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as a global instrument that, …
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 of Spain have been organiz…
By Debora Ramos Torres | Coronateaching as a syndrome In view of the experiences mentioned in the first part of this reflection regarding the impact and consequences generated by emergency remote te…
Débora Ramos Torres | March, April and May 2020 have been months of great pressure due to the serious global health emergency crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, during which physical and social …
By José Antonio Quinteiro Goris |Pandemics have plagued the world many times, disrupting the economic and social activities of millions of people, altering the culture and institutions of the societ…
By Mariano Jabonero Blanco | Francesc Pedró The closure of universities and educational establishments poses a real challenge for the Ibero-American education systems, which have to ensure that more …
By José Antonio Quinteiro Goris | For more than three decades, the internationalization of higher education has attracted increasing attention at the policy level, at the institutional, national, reg…
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 improve his/her learning experience, expand knowledge…
Imagine a world where students can swiftly move around the world and pursue their studies without hitting any roadblocks. Well we might be one step closer to that. In November 2019, the draft text of …
The Times Higher Education (THE), an English company dedicated to processing data on higher education in the world, recently published the Latin America University Rankings, a list that includes the r…