On January 25 and 26, the International Seminar on University Quality and Accreditationan open forum where some 3,500 specialists in university quality from Latin America and Spain participated in person and online.
The academic event was organized by the National Polytechnic School (EPN) and the International University of La Rioja (UNIR)and brought together around 90 universities, institutions and organizations from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Honduras, Chile, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Bolivia and Spain.
Rosalía Arteaga, president of UNIR Ecuador, mentioned that “it is not enough to have teachers who are great researchers, but who are also great human beings, essential for the trainer.” She also remembered the role of the university and its “duty of connection with society, is not an abstract entity”.
Digitization, the challenges of higher education and the quality of teaching in Ecuador
The meeting revolved around eight tables, each one with its theme. From the table on quality processes and continuous training, the moderator Hernán Rojas Sánchez, president of the Board of Directors of the Assembly of the Ecuadorian Higher Education System (ASESEC), highlighted that internationalization is a key element in superior quality. “It is a dynamic process that promotes interaction, cooperation, and academic strengthening,” he said.
The higher education that young people want
Américo Guevara, president of the Association of National Universities of Peru (AUNAP), explained the licensing procedures and emphasized the Curricular flexibility as a transcendental element in the accreditation process“which allows the incorporation of content according to the needs of the environment,” he stressed.
Martín Benavides, former Minister of Education of Peru, stressed that “In Latin America there is little attraction of students towards postgraduate and doctoral degrees; those who opt do so in the United States and Europe”. In addition, “the percentage that drops out of these studies is between 40% and 60%,” he added. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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