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Higher Education in Latin America and the Challenges of the 21st Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Higher Education in Latin America and the Challenges of the 21st Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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This book presents an overview of the region with one of the
fastest growing higher education sectors in the world. Until the
beginning of the 1980s, universities were restricted to the elites
in Latin American countries, with less than 5 million students
enrolled in its courses. In the last four decades, however, the
region went through a boom of higher education institutions and now
has more than 25 million students enrolled in more than 3,800
universities - approximately 10% of all students enrolled in higher
education courses in the world with four times more higher
education institutions than Europe. The boom of Latin American
higher education is analyzed in this contributed volume by leading
experts from the region. They discuss the causes and consequences
of this massive expansion and the challenges they pose for
different stakeholders such as governments, private entrepreneurs,
teachers, researchers, students, policy makers, educational
managers and many other social groups. Topics discussed in the
volume include: Massive expansion of tertiary enrollment in Latin
America Expansion of private higher education Proliferation of new
kinds of institutions, different from the classic university model
The challenge of developing quality assurance and accreditation
systems Internationalization of academic research and teaching in
Latin America The challenge of integrating academic research and
technological innovation Higher Education in Latin America and the
Challenges of the 21st Century will be a valuable resource for
educational researchers, sociologists, political scientists and
other social scientists dedicated to the study of the expansion of
higher education and its social implications in different parts of
the world. The book will also be of interest to policy makers s and
both public and private agents interested in understanding the
global dynamics of higher education.
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