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Virtual student mobility for a post-pandemic world
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 institutions (HEIs) reported increased application of virtual ... -
Higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean, present and future
By Ana Lúcia Gazzola | First of all, I would like to talk about my joy at participating in this IESALC event, in celebration ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
University libraries facing the COVID-19 pandemic: better prepared than the university that hosts them?
By José Antonio Quinteiro Goris | The state of alarm derived from the COVID-19 pandemic was a trauma for most Latin American and Caribbean ... -
Higher Education in the recovery plans
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 ... -
UNESCO: RECOGNITION OF QUALIFICATIONS / AHORAEDUCACION.COM
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 ... -
The New Regional Convention: an open door to innovation and cooperation
The Virtual Forum “The New Regional Convention: challenges and opportunities for its implementation” opened with welcoming remarks from the director of the UNESCO International Institute for ... -
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 ... -
The evolution of higher education governance structures at a national level: lessons from the Peruvian case
By Francesc Pedró and Harold Mera | These past days, the Education Commission of the Peruvian Congress approved the ruling of the Law of Organization ... -
Understanding access to higher education in the last two decades
By Daniele Vieira, Takudzwa Mutize and Jaime Roser Chinchilla | 21 December 2020 A recent study developed by UNESCO IESALC entitled Towards universal access ... -
The University of Costa Rica and the SDG: Integral Articulation and Social Commitment
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 ... -
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 ... -
#Coronateaching: Syndrome or a new opportunity for reflection? II/II
By Debora Ramos Torres | Coronateaching as a syndrome In view of the experiences mentioned in the first part of this reflection regarding the ... -
#Coronateaching: Syndrome or a new opportunity for reflection? I/II
Débora Ramos Torres | March, April and May 2020 have been months of great pressure due to the serious global health emergency crisis caused ... -
How will COVID-19 affect international academic mobility?
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 ... -
The great expansion in times of pandemic
By Mariano Jabonero Blanco | Francesc Pedró The closure of universities and educational establishments poses a real challenge for the Ibero-American education systems, which ... -
The Internationalization of Higher Education: until when do we leave measurements?
By José Antonio Quinteiro Goris | For more than three decades, the internationalization of higher education has attracted increasing attention at the policy level, ... -
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 ... -
According to Times Higher Education, the best universities in Latin America and the Caribbean are in Chile, Brazil and Mexico
The Times Higher Education (THE), an English company dedicated to processing data on higher education in the world, recently published the Latin America University ...
