Several experts from at least 12 countries met in the city of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, in which They concluded that it is key to optimize finance and processes in universities to improve the quality of higher education.
This was stated during the III International Quality and University Accreditation Seminar in Latin America, where They highlighted the quality of higher education as an internationalization instrument.
The Academic Director of International Relations of the International University of La Rioja (UNIR), Manuel Herrerahe explained that “Getting quality requires, on the one hand, the existence of external independent agencies” And he needs, on the other, “The constitution of professional teams that know how to face the processes” In educational institutions.
“It is necessary that the evaluation processes be clear, transparent, independent of the political situation of the country,” express.
During this forum that takes place at the University of Cartagena, the challenges of education in Latin America, and especially that institutions have teams of professionals trained in evaluation and accreditation of quality.
Therefore, Herrera stressed that joining her “It is becoming an important instrument by providing training to universities.”
“This third international seminar is a debate forum to see how to improve the formation of these teams, which are after all those that have to guarantee quality in the institutions themselves,” Herrera held.
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Unite its academic director of International Relations stressed, “It is a young, dynamic university, which has made new technologies an instrument to correct social inequalities leading to training people to scenarios that would otherwise be totally excluded.”
In his opinion, That institution is “a social university” what “Bet on the correction of social inequalities, but also gender inequalities.”
“More than 70 percent of our students are women who have discovered through quality online training the way of reinventing themselves,” Herrera added.
Inter -institutional dialogue
The seminar is organized by the University of Cartagena, the UNIR, the Colombian Association of Universities (ASCUN), The State University System (SUE) and the Colombian Association of Higher Education Institutions (ACIET).
The rector of the University of Cartagena, Willian Malkún, said this meeting “It seeks to put in dialogue the entire academic community in Latin America, to the accrediting agencies around a problem that is still in discussion and is the issue of quality and the processes in which they subscribe in international issues.”
Malkun argued that “One of the elements that weighs” to do these processes well are financial costs.
Institutions grow rapidly, “But not in the same way the institutional budgets grow and that also results in quality issues.”
“It is not just having, as said colloquially, chalk and board and students, but you have to speak in terms of university well -being,” He added during this forum that will end on Friday.
With EFE information.
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