Globalisation has spurred several attempts to reform higher education in Latin America. Despite these efforts, the region remains peripheral to international centres of research and knowledge dissemination. This publication aims to help address this situation. It examines the challenges Latin America faces in becoming a world-renowned knowledge centre by assessing the overall development of the region's higher education with respect to various factors, including curricula, educational networks, and mobility of teachers and students. Based on studies of higher education in seven countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Peru), the publication identifies opportunities for raising Latin America's profile on the global stage.
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The contents are as follows: An internationalization model: responding to new realities and challenges / Jane Knight; Regional and international challenges to higher education in Latin America / Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen, Kristian Thorn, Jose Joaquin Brunner, and Jorge Balan; Internationalization of higher education in Argentina / Julio Cesar Theiler; Internationalization of higher education in Brazil / Sonia Pereira Laus and Marilia Costa Morosini; Internationalization of higher education in Chile / Carlos Ramirez Sanchez; Internationalization of higher education in Colombia / Isabel Cristina Jaramillo; Internationalization of higher education in Cuba / Raul Hernandez Perez; Internationalization of higher education in Mexico / Jocelyne Gacel-Avila; Internationalization of higher education in Peru / Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, Leena Bernuy Quiroga, and Pamela Lastres Dammert; Key actors and programs: increasing connectivity in the region / Isabel Cristina Jaramillo and Jane Knight; The Latin American way: trends, issues, and directions / Jocelyne Gacel-Avila, Isabel Cristina Jaramillo, Jane Knight, and Hans de Wit.
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