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Nro. 192| July 2009 |Print | Spanish | Portuguese |

 
 
IESALC Informa
on Higher Education
 
Special edition for WCHE 2009
       
 

"The World Conference of 2009 should be a world mobilization of energies and capacities for carrying out concrete actions"
In this editorial, IESALC Reports reproduces an interview with George Haddad, Director of the Division of Higher Education of UNESCO that occurred last November in Paris.nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Article

     

 


The World Conference on Higher Education 2009 begins today
Beginning at 5 p.m., more than 1,000 people from all regions of the world will be seated in Conference Room 1 of UNESCO-Paris for the inauguration of the most important international event in the area of higher education.mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 
The state of higher education in today's world
Higher education is being shaken by profound changes throughout the world. The explosion in enrolments during the last decade has placed severe financial strains on tertiary level systems. At the same time, computers and the Internet have made possible hitherto unimagined forms for the global transfer of knowledge.nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
 
Key texts of the WCHE 2009
Familiarity with key documents of the World Conference on Higher Education, 2009: The New Dynamics of Higher Education and Research for Social Change and Development show the possible results of this meeting.
 
Intercultural Institutions of Higher Education in Latin America. Processes of institution building, achievements, innovations, and challenges
This publication brings together a set of texts that analyze the institution building of eight intercultural institutions of higher education in seven Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Nicaragua).
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