Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Journal Educación Superior y Sociedad (ESS)

The journal Educación Superior y Sociedad ESS (Higher Education and Society) reaches its thirtieth anniversary and celebrates it with a virtual meeting in consonance with its academic and intellectual work. The meeting’s agenda includes the presentation of the contents of its anniversary issue Tres décadas de investigación en educación superior en América Latina y el Caribe: pasado, presente y futuro (Three decades of research in higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean: past, present and future, number 1, Vol. 33, year 2021), which brings a retrospective and visionary view on the research carried out in the field of higher education and its thematic trends. Afterwards, two conferences with experts on higher education will introduce reflections and considerations about the past, present and future of higher education in the world, and the challenges that the sector currently faces. It will conclude with the prospect of the challenges confronting ESS in the immediate future.

The anniversary journal presents fifteen articles written by a group of valuable and highly recognized academics, many of them inescapable references for the field of higher education in various countries of our region. This volume adds to a profuse multiplicity of publications and academic activities that, through virtual platforms, have been deployed in the last year, keeping the considerations and systematic reflection of the academic community alive within each country, and also internationally.

Register in Zoom: https://unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UJb6gu2tSBKbAFnTo2WvqA

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Agenda | 10:00h-11:10h Caracas GMT-4 

10:00h Welcome by Débora Ramos, academic specialist and executive editor of the UNESCO IESALC Journal Educación Superior y Sociedad (ESS).

10:05h La Educación Superior en América Latina y el Caribe. Pasado, presente y futuro. (Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. Past, present and future.) Presentation of the Anniversary Issue of the ESS Journal by its general editor, Prof. Norberto Fernández Lamarra, Director of the UNESCO Chair on Education and Future in Latin America at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Argentina).

10:20h Pasado, presente y futuro de la educación superior en el mundo (Past, present and future of higher education in the world), by Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias, former director of Higher Education at UNESCO.

10:40h Los retos de la educación superior en América Latina y el Caribe (Challenges of higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean), by Ana Lúcia Almeida Gazzola, former director of UNESCO IESALC.

11:00h El futuro de la Revista (The future of the Journal), by Francesc Pedró, Director of UNESCO IESALC.

11:10h Acknowledgements and farewell.