Internationalization and Academic Mobility
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Spain | Plan to recognize foreign degrees begins to work: equivalencies granted increase 18-fold | #InThePress
Spain's Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats, reveals that the number of homologation procedures has increased by almost 40% compared to the previous April. -
Colombia and Spain agree to make access and State tests for higher education more flexible | #InThePress
Colombia and Spain have made access to their respective higher education systems more flexible, and have agreed to mutually recognize equivalencies in the results ... -
New recognition convention boosts HE mobility, integration | #InThePress
Studies link student mobility with improvements in both the quality of higher education and the processes of scientific and technological innovation. -
UN treaty on qualifications recognition enters into force
The Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education came into force on Sunday 5 March, becoming the first legally binding United ... -
The entry into force of the Regional Convention and its implications for young people in Latin America and the Caribbean
The 2019 Convention opens up a range of opportunities to build a regional framework for the recognition of higher education studies, degrees and diplomas ... -
A new report analyzes for the first time the global flows of international aid for tertiary education
The study states that international aid targeting tertiary education (TE) has almost doubled between 2002 and 2019, reaching US$5.3 billion in 2019 Nearly 35%-40% ... -
Data and knowledge production in higher education | 5 April
This is the sixth in the series of Higher education conversations in the leadup to the 3rd World Higher Education Conference (Barcelona, 18 – ... -
Cuba, Zambia and Tunisia acceded to conventions promoting mobility in higher education
Some 5.3 million students are studying higher education outside their home countries. This figure was just 2 million in year 2000. In order to ... -
New Regional Convention: a renewed instrument to promote intraregional cooperation
In Latin America and the Caribbean only 38 students out of every 100 stay in the region to pursue their higher education studies, while ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
The impact of the digital divide on student mobility / University World News
“We had to pay three times more than we were initially paying for broadband internet so that I could attend my virtual classes. I ... -
Virtual forum the New Regional Convention: challenges and opportunities for its implementation
The recognition of academic studies and degrees is the process by which a competent authority of a country formally recognizes the value of the ... -
Call: Virtual Mobility Space in Higher Education
The Virtual Mobility Space in Higher Education (eMOVIES) is an initiative led by the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE), which offers participating higher education institutions (HEI) ... -
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 ... -
New scheme aims to boost student mobility within Latin America / ICEF Monitor
The UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC) has just published a new study that reveals that intra-regional mobility ... -
UNESCO IESALC reveals that only 38% of mobility from Latin America and the Caribbean is to the same region
The UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC) has just published Higher Education Mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges ...
