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Dante J Salto is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He holds a Ph.D. and a M.Sc. in Educational Administration and Policy Studies (Higher Education concentration) from the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY). His research interest focuses on higher education policy in a comparative and international perspective, mainly on issues at the intersection of quality assurance, regulation, and privatization.
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Introduction. Most higher education systems in developing and developed countries have experienced changes in their governance structure. In postgraduate education in Argentina those changes signaled a move toward an increasing role of the state as steering agent and the market to enhance competition, both at the expense of traditional academic pow...
Most countries, developing as well as developed, have adopted some type of quality assurance mechanism. Argentina is neither an island nor an outlier in higher education reforms in general. This study is based on case study design and involved extensive fieldwork to collect interviews and official documents. This article analyzes the regulatory fra...
Brazil has by far the largest higher education system in Latin America, with a sizable share of students enrolled in private-sector institutions. Its recently established and fast-growing for-profit sector is one of the largest worldwide. The for-profit sector already surpasses the public sector in student enrollment, and its role is growing. Publi...
A large number of countries worldwide have established quality assurance mechanisms in Higher Education, ranging from the long-engrained system (United States) to more recent developments in Europe, Latin America and other regions. This study explores the way Higher Education institutions, as examples of autonomous organisations, respond to a new s...
Despite their common historical roots, two higher education systems in Latin America differ dramatically in their financing mechanisms. In Argentina, the national government completely subsidizes undergraduate programs in public institutions, while Chile relies mostly on tuition fees charged to individuals attending public institutions. Through qua...
Accreditation as a form of quality assurance has spread worldwide. As a result, the public and research interests have targeted the policies that developed agencies and procedures and the responses and effects of accreditation on higher education organizations and programs. However, studies on accreditation have not analyzed two core aspects: the c...
Accreditation in higher education has become omnipresent and, on many occasions, has been used as a synonym for quality assurance. The establishment of accreditation agencies as a worldwide phenomenon, however, is relatively recent in the history of higher education. Through a predominantly qualitative approach, this paper aims to analyze how progr...
Regulation of higher education worldwide has become a complex process. New developments, such as the accreditation of institutions and programmes by foreign, and usually private, agencies, has not been the focus of scholarship on regulation and quality assurance in higher education. This article addresses the issue of accreditation of graduate busi...
The COVID-19 pandemic challenges higher-education institutions in Latin America. Switching from face-to-face to online instruction has profound implications regarding access in a strikingly unequal geographical region. The article highlights that the pandemic may have lasting consequences in the ways we understand the provision of higher education...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to countless academic and policy pieces on its initial and predicted impacts in all social fields, higher education prominently included. This working paper has two principal purposes, inter-related and overlapping. One is to provide the best possible first answers to the pressing question of how COVID affects and will...
Argentina ingresa en esta discusión de los rankings de forma lateral y esporádica. A diferencia de otros países del norte y el sur global, la política pública en el país ha estado más centrada en administrar los recursos para proveer acceso masivo al sistema de educación superior que a posicionar algunas de sus universidades en los rankings interna...
Desde mediados de los años noventa en la Argentina se han puesto en marcha políticas de aseguramiento de la calidad y financiamiento para la mejora. Una de las principales debilidades identificadas es el escaso desarrollo de la función de investigación; problema más acentuado en las universidades privadas que en las estatales. Mediante un marco con...
Since the 1990s, Argentina has launched quality assurance and financing for improvement policies. One of the main weaknesses identified is the limited development of the research function; an issue more prominent in private than in public universities. Through a conceptual framework based on organizational theory and mixed methods, this study shows...
This chapter analyzes the motivations behind North-South collaboration, as well as facilitators and obstacles. Through a case study approach, two specific cases focus on research units at public and private Argentinian universities with established North-South research partnerships. General conclusions indicate that international scientific coopera...
The pursuit to construct " world-class " universities is an ongoing global obsession across the world, which lays emphasis on the development of competitive higher education and research systems as core national economic approach. The portrayal " world-class " is more contextual rather than absolute, the expression " world-class university " has an...
Established on a Napoleonic, professional training mission, universities in Latin America have not centered their activities in conducting research. This statement applies to traditional public universities, though Latin America’s leading universities boast some research tradition. Contemporary worldwide trends such as the increased economic value...
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During a recent "summit" meeting of leading Latin American higher education scholars and practitioners, key developments in Private Higher Education (PHE) became the topic of many meaningful discussions. This article reports on PHE and closely related issues, such as privatization and the comparison between the pub...
La cooperación académica internacional multilateral es una modalidad de articulación entre instituciones de educación superior cada vez más importante. Este trabajo analiza el caso del consorcio universitario de la Asociación de Universidades del Grupo Montevideo (AUGM) que se desarrolla dentro del Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR). Se destacan las...
The reality of educational systems and research in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) depicts a complex, heterogeneous panorama that includes great disparities across the region and within each country. LAC education greatly differentiates by support from government measured by investment in education, coverage through enrollments, and quality t...
Brazil has become by far the largest higher education system in Latin America, with a large share of enrollments in the private sector. A recently established and fast growing for-profit sub-sector consolidates as one of the largest worldwide. It already surpasses the public sector in enrollment and its role is growing. Public policy has backed the...
Este trabajo aborda la problemática de la cooperación académica internacional, en su modalidad multilateral, analizando el caso de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba en cooperación con otras universidades de la región a través de dos consorcios universitarios: la Asociación de Universidades del Grupo Montevideo y la Red de Macrouniversidades de Amé...