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ENLACES
  
No. 181 | January 2009 | Print | Spanish | Portuguese

 

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IESALC Reports
on Higher Education
 
editorial
       
 
2009 is the year of the World Conference on Higher Education, a unique opportunity to discuss with representatives of all countries of the world a platform to support building higher education of quality and pertinence in our region.
Latin America and the Caribbean already met last year in Cartagena for the regional preparatory conference, CRES 2008, where we produced a Declaration and an Action Plan. CRES 2008 allowed us to review our goals as a region and to identify important items for a strategic agenda.
     


 
The path toward the World Conference on Higher Education
In July, 2009, the French capital will host the World Conference on Higher Education. The event will treat the study of new dynamics of development of university institutions. In addition it will review progress that has taken place since the last world conference held in 1998. At the same time, the meeting is the largest higher education event in the world.
 
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IESALC ll publishes work on assuring the quality of Latin American and Caribbean universities
 Produced by Dr. Ana Lúcia Gazzola and Dr. Sueli Pires, the book entitled "Toward a Regional Policy of Assuring the Quality of Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean" is now available, published by UNESCO-IESALC with the sponsorship of the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID).
 
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Latin America and the Caribbean participates in the International Astronomy Year
This is the International Astronomy Year, as declared by the 62nd United Nations General Assembly. The science celebrations began on January 15 at UNESCO headquarters, and foresees activities in 140 countries. Italy was the country that placed the proposal on the table; it is the homeland of the great inventor of the telescope, Galileo Galilie.
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Astronomy with a Venezuelan stamp
Many people don't know that there can be found in Venezuela one of the highest observatories in the world – the National Astronomical Observatory, located in the Llano del Hato in Apartaderos, in the State of Mérida. Also largely unknown is that it is the largest observatory complex among those near the equator. Due to its location, it has the advantage of being able to observe both hemispheres.
 
 
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