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Nro. 190| June 2009 |Print | Spanish | Portuguese |

 
 
IESALC Informa
on Higher Education
 
Editorial
       
 
When we examine the history of links between higher education and Latin American integration, we find some proposals for the creation of institutions with the objective of fostering educational programs intended to develop a supra-national awareness and to train leaders who are committed to the ideals of regional integration.Latin America and the Caribbean are different from the European context. In the former, the processes of regional integration are still weak and limited, without a supra-national organization able to mobilize and assure the adhesion of countries to programs of a regional scope.
     

 

Betting on the integration of Latin America and the Caribbean
Within the framework of the Regional Conference on Higher Education – CRES 2008, held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, the book was presented entitled “Trends of Higher Education for Latin America and the Caribbean” , edited by the Institute of Higher Education of Latin America and the Caribbean – IESALC.
 
 
Transforming Latin American Universities
There is growing awareness that the major problems of Latin America , such as poverty, exclusion, hunger and malnutrition, and social vulnerability, cannot be solved by a single social actor. There is a need for States, the press, institutions of higher education, and other social actors to form permanent alliances in order to overcome these problems.
 
 
The World Conference of 1998: The importance of controlling knowledge
The World Conference on Higher Education (WCHE) of 1998 took place at an important moment for the development of intellectual thought that sought to identify the problems that universities should address both regionally and globally .
 
Higher education and society (ESS Magazine) in their new era with the approach of the World Conference
Under current circumstances, with discussions of the future of higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean progressing within the framework of globalization, the subject of human and social development and their link with higher education and the potential of knowledge is a timely one. Since 2007, IESALC has twice a year published a new issue of the journal “Higher Education and Society”.