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IESALC
El Instituto Internacional de la UNESCO para la Educación
Superior en Améica Latina y el Caribe (IESALC) es un
órgano autónomo- adscrito a la UNESCO - que
da continuidad a las actividades que por veinte años
desarrolla el CRESALC en el ámbito de la Educación
Superior en la región latinoamericana. Su centro de
operaciones se encuentra en la ciudad de Caracas-Venezuela
- Website: http://www.iesalc.unesco.org.ve/
Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
The Latin Americanist Research Resources Partnership is a
cooperative initiative of North American, Latin American,
and Caribbean libraries that seek to improve access to the
array of research resources published in Latin America.
- Website: http://www.crl.edu/grn/larrp/index.asp/
Higher Education and Science in Latin America. Ned
Strong. LASPAU. 2005
The fundamental role of universities in today’s word
is identifying, understanding, and resolving social, economic,
and scientific challenges that face the world. There is no
question that these pursuits, done well, require multidisciplinary,
multinational, and interdependent networks and relationships.
The time to expand exchanges to address these issues could
not be more immediate.But, major barriers exist to meet the challenges facing our region. A few slides illustrate the challenges facing science and higher education in developing nations in the Western Hemisphere.
- Website: http://www.laspau.harvard.edu/western_hem/index.htm/
New Markets for Meeting Old Needs: US Distance Education
and Developing Countries. Winthrop Carty. LASPAU. 1999
This paper analyzes the broad context and covers practical applications for delivering distance education in countries of the developing world. We begin by examining market trends in global higher education and continue by reviewing existing distance-education activity in developing countries. This is followed by a discussion of the conditions -- from the pedagogical to the technological-- under which U.S. universities can conduct international distance education in that part of the world. Finally, this report concludes with recommended strategies for engaging people and institutions on behalf of mutually beneficial distance education programs that target or include developing countries.
- Website: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/edu9918/edu9918.html/
Argentina
Secretaria de Politicas Universitarias
Homepage for the government authority with oversight responsibility
for postsecondary education in Argentina.
- Website: http://www.mcye.gov.ar/spu/Servicios/infoUNIVERSIDADES/infouniversidades.html
La Educacion Universitaria Privada en Argentina, Adriana Caillon,
2005
This paper (in Spanish) was prepared for IESALC UNESO and
provides an overview of private higher education including
the legal structure, enrollment, funding, faculty, and diversity
within the sector.
- PDF: La Educaci? Universitaria
Privada
Brazil
Higher Education in Brazil: Challenges and Options, Lauritz
Holm-Nielsen, Michael Crawford, Birgit Zischke, and Samia
Benbouzid, 2001
This paper was prepared for the World Bank for HIgher Education in Developing Countries: Peril and Promise. Brazil has put significant resources into developing its higher education system over the past three decades. As a result, a system has evolved in which some institutions have achieved recognizable excellence in teaching and research, while, more generally, the majority of institutions have struggled to provide relevant, quality education at reasonable cost. Looked at in isolation, certain parts of the system are sound and productive. Taken as a whole, the system still has a number of large challenges to overcome.
- Website: http://www.tfhe.net/resources/higher_edu_brazil.htm
O Financiamento das Instituições de Ensino Superior no Brasil, Jacques Schwartzman 2002
This paper (in Portuguese) reviews the sources and distribution of public and private financing for higher education in Brazil.
- PDF: O Financiamiento
O Sistema de Avaliaçõ do Ensino Superior no Brasil, Maria Susana Arrosa Soares 2003
This paper (in Portuguese) reviews the development of systems for regulating the quality and performance of postsecondary
education (universities and non-universities) in Brazil.
- PDF: çõ do Ensino Superior
Chile
Consejo Superior de Educacion
Homepage for the government authority with oversight responsibility
for postsecondary education in Chile.
Website: http://www.cse.cl/ASP/WEB_CSE_Home.asp
Antecedentes, Situación Actual y Perspectivas
de la Evaluación y la Acreditación de la Educación
Superior en Chile, Maria Jose Lamaitre, 2003. This paper
(in Spanish) provides historical background and data for the
development of a system of university evaluation and accreditation
in Chile.
- PDF: Antecedenctes, Situacion
Actual, y Perspectivas
Los Nuevos Proveedores Externos de Educacion Superior
en Chile, Luis Eduardo Gonzalez, 2003
This paper (in Spanish) reviews the process of internationalizing
higher education in Chile and analyzes growing diversity within
this sector.
- PDF: Los Nuevos
Proveedores
Colombia
Tertiary Education in Colombia: Paving the Way for Reform
A paper published by the World Bank. 2003
This sector study suggestion potential strategies and recommendations
that would move the tertiary education sector forward by providing
the flexibility to become more responsive to the demands from
society, from students, and from the labor-market.
- PDF: Tertiary
Education in Colombia
Education Reform in Colombia: The Elusive Quest for Effecitiveness
A paper published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars
- Website: http://wwics.si.edu/topics/docs/Lowden_Paper.pdf
Etrategia para la Calidad de la Educaci? Superior,
IESALC, UNESCO, September 2005
Los Examenes para la Calidad de la Educación evaluaci?
a cuarenta y tres programas y a m? de 1110.000 estudiantes
de último año de pregrado.
- PDF: Estrategia para la Calidad
Ecuador
Informaci&oadute;n General Ampliada La Educación Superior
Universitaria Privada en el Ecuador, IESALC, UNESCO June
2005
This paper (in Spanish) reviews the growth of private education offered by universities and politecnic institutes that are either financed partially or completely with private funds.
The author reviews the legal framework for private higher education, course offered and enrollment patterns at these institutions.
- Website: http://www.iesalc.unesco.org.ve/programas/Privada/Informe%20Superior%20Privada-Ecuador.pdf
Mexico
Secretaria de Educación Pública (SEP)
This is the website of the government authority responsible for the oversight of public education in Mexico.
- Website: http://www.sep.gob.mx/wb2/
Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones
de Educación Superior (ANUIES)
This is the website of a NGO comprised of a diverse group
of 139 institutions of higher education that represent 80%
of the university and graduate enrollment in Mexico. ANUIES
represents the interests of academics and administrators with
national governmental bodies and leaders and with international
organizations.
- Website: http://www.anuies.mx/index1024.html/
Red de Investigadores sobre la Educacion Superior (RISEU), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Riseu (Network of Researchers on Higher Education) is integrated
by academics dedicated to the study of higher education. The
RISEU members are from Mexico, Latin America, Spain and another
countries. The main objectives are to embody to the researchers
and scholars dedicated to the systematic study of higher education;
to constitute a space of academic interlocution; to spread
important texts about higher education policies and; to support
the investigation through the development of documentary resources.
- Website: http://www.suc.unam.mx/riseu/
Peru
Comisi? Nacional de Rectores para la Acreditaci? Universitiaria
La Asamblea Nacional de Rectores en el Pleno del 01 de febrero
del 2002, acord la designación de la Comisión
Nacional de Rectores para la Acreditación Universitaria
a fin de revisar y hacer propuestas de estándares de
acreditación y evaluación de las Universidades
Peruanas. El trabajo de la Comisión se orienta a difundir
la cultura de autoevaluación. A promover en las universidades
a lograr y mantener procesos permanentes de autoevaluación
en el marco de sus fines y principios.
- Website: http://www.anr.edu.pe/acreditacion/default.htm/
Estudio de Internacionalizacion de Nuevos Proveedores
en la Educación Superior en el Peru Econ. José
Llaque Ramos
This paper (in Spanish) examines four models for providing
international higher education in Peru—foreign universities
offereing programs directly to students, universities offering
degrees in partnership with Peruvian universities, exchange
programs, and setting up campuses in Peru.
- PDF: Nuevos
Proveedores
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