Author: Sara Maneiro
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30 Years of Inclusion with excellence in University Higher Education
Continuing the series of Webinars dedicated to the UNESCO Chairs on Higher Education, this Thursday, March 12th2020, Professor Francisco Javier Gil, holder of the UNESCO Chair ... -
Call for Internet Actions for the Eradication of Racism
The Cátedra UNESCO Educación Superior y Pueblos Indígenas y Afrodescendientes en América Latina (UNESCO Chair in Higher Education and Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples in Latin America) ... -
Webinar: Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Quality of Distance and Online Learning in Higher Education
The Instituto Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Calidad en Educación Superior a Distancia (Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Quality in Higher Distance Education) (CALED) hosts the series of webinars “Quality and Evaluation of ... -
Universities actions in the face of Covid-19
The universities of the region were forced to suspend their activities and the vast majority turned their eyes towards distance learning under the virtual modality to ... -
Virtual roundtable discussion: the future of higher education and the impact of the pandemic
On May 6th, 2020 at 2 pm (Argentine hour), the Confederación de trabajadores y trabajadoras de las Universidades de las Américas (Confederation of Universities Workers in ... -
Quality practices in Internationalization
The Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture, the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC), the III ... -
PhD in Higher Education Policy and Management
The proposal of this postgraduate course at UNTREF is framed in the need of analyzing the transformations that have taken place in the knowledge society that ... -
Higher education, indigenous and afro-descendant people in Latin America. Intercultural collaboration: experiences and learning
In Latin America, various types of experiences of intercultural collaboration between higher education institutions (HEI) and communities of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples have been developing in ... -
The challenges posed by racism in higher education in Latin America
On Thursday April 16, 2020, the series of webinars dedicated to the UNESCO Chairs in Higher Education offered one presented by Professor Daniel Mato, committed to ... -
IESALC calls on students and teachers to share their experiences coping with the disruption of classes as a result of the COVID-19
Some 190 countries around the world have had to close their universities to stop the spread of the coronavirus. This has led to 1.5 billion students ... -
The ESS Journal calls for its Special Number 30 Anniversary
The call for contributions for the Anniversary Dossier (Vol.32, N°3 /December 2020) of the Journal Educación Superior y Sociedad ESS (Higher Education and Society), is open until August ... -
Global student financing policies: funds for the achievement of equity
Higher education is seen, throughout the world, as an engine of social mobility, opening new opportunities for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Therefore, increasing participation and achievement ... -
Future Skills – The Future of Learning and Higher Education
In times of organizations in global networks and of constant acceleration to product cycles, the model of qualification for future jobs seems to be questioned. With ... -
Governing by visual shapes: university rankings, digital education platforms and cosmologies of higher education
University rankings have been central to higher education policies for at least the last three decades. They have become commonplace. The international magazine Critical Studies in ... -
IESALC report analyzes the impacts of #COVID19 and offers recommendations to governments and institutions of higher education
On World Health Day UNESCO launches document on higher education in the face of COVID-19 The temporary cessation of face-to-face activities of HEIs on a global ... -
“One Caribbean” Virtual Forum: Assessing the impact of COVID-19 designing the future of the Caribbean University Sector
In light of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that is currently affecting the world, Universities Caribbean (formerly UNICA), the Association of Caribbean Universities and Research Institutes, stands ... -
Higher Education after the COVID-19 Crisis: A GUNi initiative to build and share knowledge all over the world
At the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi), we have set out to create a special section for joint reflection given the current context that demands ... -
Actions of the Higher Education Networks in face of COVID-19
A brief and quick exploration of the websites of the 13 councils of rectors and national associations of higher education institutions (HEI) in Latin America and ... -
COVID-19 and Higher Education: National Public Policies
Since the declaration of the pandemic on March 11 by the World Health Organization (WHO), the agencies responsible for governing higher education systems in Latin America ... -
Crisis-sensitive educational planning
As of April 1st, 89% of the world’s student population was affected by the closure of their institutions due to the COVID 19 crisis, and governments ... -
Health and Nutrition during Home Learning
Health and nutrition issues during home-learning constitute an important matter to be seriously considered in the midst of the crisis created by COVID 19. Evidence shows ...
