by reisberg | Apr 20, 2022 | Curriculum, Higher Education, Labor market skills, Latin America
This report from The World Bank is a very important read. Higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has expanded dramatically in the new millennium, yet enrollment in short-cycle programs (SCPs) is still relatively low. Shorter and more practical than...
by reisberg | Nov 2, 2021 | Higher Education, International Students, Policy
My latest collaboration with Philip Altbach, an opinion piece published in Inside Higher Education. If universities are going to persist in signing contracts with third-party recruiters, then it is imperative that the experiences of international students placed by...
by reisberg | Oct 26, 2021 | Latin America, Policy, Private Higher Ed
Una conversación entre Simon Schwartzman, Flavio Felipe Figallo Rivadeynera, Juan David Parra, Yezid Orlando Perez Alemán, y Iván Pacheco. Se la puede encontrar en el link abajo. Mesa Redonda
by reisberg | May 27, 2021 | Higher Education, Policy, Rankings
Comentario por Teodoro Luque, 21 mayo 2021. [L]os rankings son una herramienta a la que se puede sacar utilidad. No son sujetos que tengan derechos y obligaciones, quienes los utilizamos sí, y debiéramos ser cautelosos con su uso y evitar el abuso. Full text...
by reisberg | Apr 18, 2021 | Enrollment trends, Latin America
Fuera del impacto de la pandemia en la disminución de la tasa de la matrícula al sistema de educación superior, que según el Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística DANE, registró una caída del 25 % en las inscripciones en el último año, el número de...
by reisberg | Apr 12, 2021 | Latin America, Private Higher Ed
By Dante J. Salto and Daniel C. Levy.| A major new form of higher education—legal for-profit higher education—burst heavily onto the Latin American scene a quarter-century ago, yet remains largely unnoticed in most of the region, let alone beyond. Concentrated in just...