Author: Yara Bastidas
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Colleges Face Growing International Student-Visa Issues
The Trump administration’s immigration policies are beginning to be felt acutely by universities, as international students struggle to get the visas they need to study in ... -
How artificial intelligence will help shape the future of higher education?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an idea seems to have caught the imagination of both industry and academia alike. Although AI-related academic research has been in place ... -
Universities of the region must deepen research and Sustainable Development Goals efforts
On September 25, the panel “University Research and Sustainable Development Goals (ODS)” took place at the headquartes of the Universidad de Panama. Members of the UNESCO-IESALC ... -
Call to identify best practices in education with Intangible Cultural Heritage in Latin America and the Caribbean
UNESCO’s Regional Offices of Culture and Education for Latin America and the Caribbean, headquartered in Havana and Santiago, Chile respectively, invite universities, schools, cultural centres, museums, ... -
Rectores públicos afirman que la gratuidad universitaria ya no es suficiente / Grupo La Provincia
Rectores de universidades públicas aseguraron hoy que la gratuidad universitaria «en sí misma ya no es suficiente» para resolver los problemas de acceso y egreso universitario, ... -
Del papel a la nube: Cómo guiar la transformación digital de los Sistemas de Información y Gestión Educativa (SIGED) / BID
El objetivo del estudio regional sobre sistemas de información y gestión educativa (SIGED) es identificar cómo se realizan los procesos cotidianos de gestión y cuál es ... -
How green are universities? / The World University Rankings
Freshers are beginning to fill up northern hemisphere university campuses once again as academics return to their offices to welcome incoming students. Business as usual, it ... -
Stop Thinking of College as “An Investment” / The Evolllution
The language we use to describe the world shapes our very understanding of it. As detailed by Dr. Lera Boroditsky at UC San Diego, the affordances ... -
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 and Opportunities ... -
Cumbre Líderes por la Educación: “El problema es que estamos graduando los mismos perfiles de hace 50 años” / Semana
Según José Joaquín Brunner, exministro de Estado en Chile y experto en educación superior de América Latina, cada vez estamos más cerca de tener cobertura universal ... -
The IESALC presents the challenges of integration and mobility for the Region in the UNC
On September 13, 2019, at the office of the Rectorado Histórico de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba UNC (Historical Rector’s Office of the National University of ... -
IESALC presents international trends on university gratuity at the CIN forum
On September 9, 2019, experts on higher education (HE) participated in the international forum “Seventy years after the free university higher education. Tribute and teachings”, convened ... -
XI International Seminar on Industry 4.0 and Sustainability will be held in Manaus
The UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO-IESALC) will be present at the XI International Seminar “Industry 4.0 and Sustainability”, ... -
UNESCO publishes advances of the World Convention on the Recognition of Studies
From September 3, 2019, the Report on the progress made in the preparation of the project World Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education ... -
Conversation between the rector of UNTREF and the director of IESALC
On September 11, 2019, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the academic meeting Perspectives for Higher Education in Latin America. Conversations with the new director ... -
Rodolfo Tuirán, academic and official in favor of the right to education
On Tuesday, September 3, 2019, at the request of Senator Josefina Vázquez Mota, the Mexican Senate observed a minute of silence in homage to Dr. Rodolfo ... -
The VIII REALCUP Meeting comes to an end
On September 3, the second day of the VIII meeting of REALCUP began with a discussion workshop about the CRES 2018 Declaration and its CRES 2018-2028 ... -
Mobility and recognition on the agenda of the VIII Meeting of REALCUP
The VIII annual meeting of the Red de Asociaciones Latinoamericanas y Caribeñas de Universidades Privadas REALCUP (Network of Latin American and Caribbean Associations of Private Universities) ... -
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 Rankings, a ... -
International Forum 70 Years of Free of Charge University in Argentina
The National Day of Free University Education is commemorated on November 22 in Argentina, “a condition that is integrated to the autonomy, teaching, research and extension ... -
IV Latin American Workshop on Higher Education Indicators
The IV Latin American Workshop on Higher Education Indicators will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 12 and 13, 2019, convened by the Red ...
