Trends in Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (CD included)

Authors: various
Ana Lúcia Gazzola & Axel Didriksson (Editors)

Editorial: International Institute of UNESCO for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
Asociación Colombiana de Universidades – ASCUN (support)
Ministerio de Educación Superior - Republica Bolivariana de Venazuela (sponsorship)

Edition year: 2008

ISBN: 9589854631

Format: Book

Presentation: Soft cover

Size: 17 x 24 cm.

Pages number: 396

Abstract: This volume, “Trends in Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean”, presents various themes in the field of Higher Education examined from a regional perspective. These texts will serve as a basis for reflection an discussion at the Regional Conference on Higher Education – CRES 2008 – (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 4-6 june).

The “Trends in Higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean” project is based on the principle that education in a public good and a social and universal right, and on the convection that education has a strategic role to play in the sustainable development of the countries of the region. The project brings together the efforts of the academic and non-academic communities of the region in the important task of identifying desirable feasible scenarios, as well as presenting the principal ideas and forces that can aid in defining state policies for consolidation, expansion, and increasing quality an pertinence of Higher Education in the region.