Exclusion Factors in Latin American Higher Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Castro ◽  
David Rodríguez-Gómez ◽  
Joaquín Gairín
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
University Students ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
University Systems

Access to higher education has increased substantially in Latin America, but inequalities in access to and completion of higher education still remain. In this regard, identifying vulnerable groups and exclusion factors is a priority in Latin America’s university systems. The aim of this article is to understand in depth governing board perceptions of exclusion factors in higher education institutions in Latin America. The study has identified five key factors that help better understand exclusion from higher education in Latin America: (a) personal characteristics, (b) family situation, (c) institutional features, (d) public policies, and (e) phases of university students’ development.

scholarly journals Influencia supranacional de la UNESCO en la educación superior Latinoamericana

2020 ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Ricardo Gaete Quezada
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
International Institute ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
The Caribbean

Latin American higher education in recent decades has experienced the main world trends, relative to the massification of student access, insufficient state funding, increase of private institutions in the tertiary education system, as well as a regional debate on its consideration as a good public guaranteed by the State, increasing the relevance of the university mission in solving global needs. Through the comparative method developed through a documentary analysis, the influence in Latin America of the Supranational Policy on social responsibility of UNESCO higher education institutions is analyzed. The results show this influence in the Region, through the Declarations of the UNESCO World Conferences on Higher Education, materialized in the actions developed by the International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC), such as the holding of the Regional Conferences on Higher Education or the creation of the Regional Observatory of Social Responsibility for Latin America and the Caribbean (ORSALC). In addition, there is an academic debate between the concept of university social responsibility, established in the Region since the beginning of the new Millennium, related to managing the impacts of university work on its stakeholders, evolving towards the recognition of higher education as a good public and a human right as an expression of a territorial social responsibility, effectively contributing to the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. It is concluded that the analyzed Supranational Policy must consolidate its influence in the Region in the long term, by implementing some actions key strategies, such as strengthening the Latin American Higher Education Area or research on the contributions that Latin American universities must make to effectively guarantee higher education as a common good in the Region. 

scholarly journals An Agenda in Motion: Women’s Issues in Latin American Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Alma Maldonado-Maldonado ◽  
Felicitas Acosta
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Psychological Violence ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Male Power ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Physical And Psychological Violence

Women in Latin America have experienced physical and psychological violence; discrimination; lack of equal opportunities; less recognition for their work, abilities, and capacities. The #MeToo and Time's Up movements (2017) are dealing with the issue of women's role in present-day society and highlight cases of male power towards women. This article offers a reflection on this discussion at universities in the region.

scholarly journals The Crucial Presence of Private Higher Education in Latin America

2016 ◽  
pp. 24-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dante J. Salto
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Summit Meeting ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Higher Education

During a recent "summit" meeting of leading Latin American higher education scholars and practitioners, key developments in Private Higher Education (PHE) became the topic of many meaningful discussions. This article reports on PHE and closely related issues, such as privatization and the comparison between the public and private sectors, highlighted at the summit. 

scholarly journals An Agenda in Motion: Women’s Issues in Latin American Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Alma Maldonado-Maldonado ◽  
Felicitas Acosta
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Psychological Violence ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Male Power ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Physical And Psychological Violence

Women in Latin America have experienced physical and psychological violence; discrimination; lack of equal opportunities; less recognition for their work, abilities, and capacities. The #MeToo and Time's Up movements (2017) are dealing with the issue of women's role in present-day society and highlight cases of male power towards women. This article offers a reflection on this discussion at universities in the region.

scholarly journals A Critical Sociocultural Perspective to Academic Literacies in Latin America

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lina Trigos Carrillo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Study Skills ◽  
Academic Literacies ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Sociocultural Model ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
The Times

In this editorial, the author reflects on the state of research on academic literacies in Latin American higher education. To this end, the author presents a description of the context of higher education in Latin America, and the analysis of literature on academic literacies in the region through the lenses of three models: the study skills model, the academic socialization model, and the critical sociocultural model. From this analysis, the author argues that a critical sociocultural perspective is emerging in Latin America, which considers academic literacies as social practices embedded in systems of power. This turn into a critical sociocultural perspective is important and timely because it challenges deficit views of students, and it includes issues of power, identity, representation, and authority. The author invites Latin American scholars to consider the implications of a critical sociocultural perspective to academic literacies and the possibilities it offers to understand how youth interact with literacy in a region where education most of the times reinforces deep inequalities.

Profile of Medical Education in Latin America

1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. García
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Human Resources Development ◽  
Health Manpower ◽  
American Schools ◽  
Pan American ◽  
Health Organization

Preliminary results of a study on medical education in Latin America carried out by the Department of Human Resources Development of the Pan American Health Organization are given in this article. Each of the Latin American schools of medicine existing at the end of 1967 and at the beginning of 1968 was visited by a researcher for approximately seven days. During this period specially prepared questionnaires were completed. An analysis of the data reveals the presence of three types of imbalances: (1) imbalance between the system of secondary education and that of medical education, (2) internal imbalance between the system of higher education and medical education, and (3) imbalance between the system of health services and that of medical education. The study of the data compiled may serve as a basis for the proposal of activities leading to harmonious development of the health manpower sector.

scholarly journals Compensatory Policies Attending Equality and Inequality in Mexico Educational Practice among Vulnerable Groups in Higher Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
René Pedroza Flores ◽  
Guadalupe Villalobos Monroy ◽  
Ana María Reyes Fabela
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Mexican Population ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
And Gender

<p>This paper presents an estimate of the prevalence of social inequality in accessing higher education among vulnerable groups in Mexico. Estimates were determined from statistical data provided by governmental agencies on the level of poverty among the Mexican population. In Mexico, the conditions of poverty and vulnerability while trying to access better standards of living as well as educational inequality continue to grow at an alarming rate. The number of poor (extreme and moderate) and vulnerable people (according to income and social need) increased from 2008 through 2010 dramatically. The number of people in this situation went from 89.9 million to 90.8 million, which represents 80.64% of the total Mexican population. Only 19.36% of the population is not considered poor or vulnerable.</p><p>The access to higher education is not distributed uniformly throughout the Mexican youth since they belong to different social and economic strata: the least developed regions carry the largest share. Consequently, educational opportunities are unequally distributed mainly across age and gender factors. A distribution imbalance is also found with regard to gender throughout the population observed and analyzed: indigenous females have a significantly higher risk of not having access to higher education than males.</p>

scholarly journals Latin American Universities: Stuck in the Twentieth Century

2017 ◽  
pp. 26-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Knobel ◽  
Andrés Bernasconi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Flagship Universities ◽  
Latin American Universities

The higher education sector in Latin America has fallen short of its promise of spearheading cultural, social, and economic progress for the region. As higher education changes to meet the challenges on the new century, the few flagship universities of Latin America are called upon to lead. However, these universities face both internal and external obstacles that hinder their full modernization, threatening their leadership.

scholarly journals Universidad Iberoamérica 2030:la propuesta de la OEI para la educación superior en Iberoamérica

2020 ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Ana Capilla Casco
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Latin American Countries

Higher education is one of the top priority OEI’s lines of action, according to the mandate granted by the Iberoamerican Education ministers to the organization. This is explained by the increasing number of university students and the fact higher education is key to overcome the “productivity trap” the Latin American countries suffered specially. And the every time more pressing need of achieving a long time desired aim: to build an Iberoamerican area of higher education and research. All these elements are integrated in the strategy University Iberoamerica 2030 planned by the OEI for the next decade, and which mark a clear path for the higher education institutes

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