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No. 178 | November 2008 | Print | Spanish | Portuguese

 

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IESALC Reports
on Higher Education
 
editorial
       
 
The fifth guideline of the Action Plan of the Regional Conference on Higher Education, CRES 2008, recommends: "to support regional Latin American and Caribbean integration as well as the internationalization of higher education through the construction of ENLACES – the Latin America and the Caribbean Area for Higher Education.
Last week in Panama, UNESCO-IESALC, together with the Organización Universitaria Interamericana (OUI) and the Unión de Universidades América Latina y el Caribe (UDUAL) met with other university networks, the Minister of Higher Education and Technology of the Dominican Republic and the Vice President of Parlatino to propose the basis in the first regional cooperation program for the construction of ENLACES.
     


Opening ceremony. Photo: UNESCO Dakar  
African countries meet in preparation for the World Conference on Higher Education in Africa
 Dakar, Senegal is the host city of the Regional Conference on Higher Education in Africa, an even organized by UNESCO in anticipation of the World Conference on Higher Education that will take place in Paris in 2009.
 
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Auditorium. Photo: Argentina  
Chancellors of Public Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean to consider the Action Plan of CRES 2008
 With the theme "A meeting point between Cartagena and Paris", from November 20 - 21 of this year, higher education chancellors, teachers, researchers, students, and authorities will meet in the city of San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina, for the VII Summit of Chancellors of Public Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean.
 
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Migrations. Photo: Uruguay  
Migration, education, and development: a necessary convergence
 The level of development of all nations is associated with the capacity to transform raw materials buy using the added value of scientific and technological knowledge. All countries participate in varying degrees in this developmental model, and in no other moment of history has the generation and application of scientific and technological knowledge and their social consequences had so much importance as in the last forty years.
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Parintins. Photo: Brazil  
Metropolitan wireless network is tested in Brazil
The new information and communication technologies, above all the Internet and its applications, are potential allies for democratizing access to knowledge, especially in countries of great geographical expanse. Access to the new technologies, however, is still restricted, thus reinforcing exclusion.
 
 
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