Yearly Archives: 2021
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UNESCO IESALC wishes you Happy Holidays
The UNESCO IESALC team wishes you Happy Holidays and a year 2022 filled with opportunities to walk together on the path towards the transformation ... -
Implementing Virtual Student Mobility – infographic
As part of our work on reimagining higher education internationalization, IESALC has compiled 14 case studies of 74 higher education institutions in 38 countries ... -
Education in times of change | El Espectador
Given the transcendental and definitive role of higher education in these current times, it is necessary to continue responding to the growing challenges that ... -
Critical higher education for social welfare, raised by experts | LaJornada
By Laura Poy Solano | LaJornada Specialists warned that a change is urgent in higher education, so as not to see university education only ... -
Past, present and future of higher education in the world
Blog | By Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias [1] Participating in a meeting that celebrates the 30th anniversary of the journal “Higher Education and Society” ... -
IESALC’S ESS Journal addresses the challenges of higher education in the region facing the pandemic
UNESCO IESALC’s Journal Educación Superior y Sociedad (ESS) presented its most recent edition (Vol.33, No. 2, 2021) which includes, in addition to its general ... -
“From UNESCO IESALC we want to encourage the richness and diversity of perspectives that characterize the region to be present at the Third World Higher Education Conference in 2022”, Francesc Pedró
The director of UNESCO IESALC assured that this edition of the World Conference would be highly participatory, allowing any person or entity to make ... -
Towards #WHEC2022. Webinar 2: Preparing for the futures of higher education
One of the main axes of UNESCO World Higher Education Conference #WHEC2022, to be held in Barcelona (Spain) in May 2022, is the futures ... -
UNESCO presented in Barcelona the 3rd World Higher Education Conference: “Reinventing Higher Education for a Sustainable Future”
What impact has the COVID-19 pandemic had on higher education? How to guarantee an inclusive higher education with relevant and quality programs? How can ... -
Cuba, Zambia and Tunisia acceded to conventions promoting mobility in higher education
Some 5.3 million students are studying higher education outside their home countries. This figure was just 2 million in year 2000. In order to ... -
Webinar release – Launch of the report Pathways to 2050 and Beyond. Results of a public consultation on the futures of higher education
Photo: Some of the report editors, guest speakers at the launch event and the Director of IESALC By Luz Gamarra Caballero | On 25, November, 2021, UNESCO-IESALC launched the report “Pathways ... -
Towards #WHEC2022. Webinar 1: Inclusion in higher education
One of the main axes of the UNESCO World Higher Education Conference #WHEC2022, to be held in Barcelona (Spain) in May 2022, is inclusion ... -
People from around the world visualized what higher education could look like in 2050 and beyond
Higher education is expected to be inclusive, student-centered, responsive and connected Higher education plays a crucial role in individual empowerment, community development, societal progress and global cohesion ... -
Reimagining equitable access to international student mobility | studyportals.com
Francesc Pedró, Director of UNESCO’s International Institute for Higher Education and a keynote speaker at Studyportals Global Student Satisfaction Awards, is interviewed by Studyportals ... -
Indigenous peoples and Afro-Descendants face multiple racism in higher education | jornada.com
In higher education institutions, indigenous and Afro-descendant students not only face obstacles related to their socioeconomic situation but also to their linguistic differences and ... -
Higher education both fights and reproduces racism
The webinar Racism in the Academy: Global perspectives on multiple forms of racism and struggles for equity revealed how higher education systems legitimate and reproduce racism ... -
#23Nov Webinar inclusion in higher education
As part of the events prior to the 3rd UNESCO World Higher Education Conference that will take place in Barcelona from May 18 to 20, 2022, ... -
2nd Campaign against Racism in Higher Education
The UNESCO Chair in Higher Education and Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples in Latin America of the National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) invites ... -
The battle against inequity must begin in the family and in preschool education | Campus: Supplement on higher education
By Carlos Reyes | If higher education institutions commit themselves to educational equity and build strategies to reduce the gaps between students and the ... -
#25Nov Webinar | Pathways to 2050 and beyond: Findings from a public consultation on the futures of higher education
Join UNESCO IESALC for the online launch of the second report on the futures of higher education, Pathways to 2050 and beyond: Findings from a public ... -
Kick-off meeting of the project to support women participation in higher education in Eastern Africa
The UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO IESALC) and the UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa (UNESCO ...