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Higher Education and Science and Technology in Latin America and the Caribbean
Seminar held in Fortaleza, Brazil, on Friday, March 8, 2002 (Ceará Convention Center, Section A, Room 1)Agenda (English, Spanish, Portuguese versions)
Papers to be presented:
Session I
The Expansion and Diversification of Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of Recent Developments and Trends
- Latin America's Tertiary Education: Accelerating Pluralism , by Daniel Levy (State University of New York).
- Os desafios do pluralismo (in Portuguese only), comments by Simon Schwartzman (American Institutes for Research, Brazil).
Session II
Responding to Growing Demand: Policies, Markets and Institutions
- New Supervision Models and New Institutional Modalities (PowerPoint presentation, in Portuguese only), by Luiz Roberto Liza Curi (Ministry of Education, Brazil).
- La educación superior intercultural: Recurso pedagógico para una educación equitativa (in Spanish only), by Myrna Cunningham (Universidad de las Regiones Autónomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaragüense, Nicaragua)
Session III
Emerging Systems for Evaluation and Accreditation as a Response to the Expansion of Institutions and Programs
- The Case of Brazil (in Portuguese only), by Maria Helena Guimaraes Castro (National Institute for Educational Studies and Research, Brazil)
- El sistema de supervisión y mejoramiento de la calidad de la educación superior de El Salvador: Estudio de caso (in Spanish only), by Andrés Bernasconi (Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile)
- Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean , by Errol Miller (Institute of Education, University of the West Indies, Jamaica)
Session IV
National Innovation Systems: The Role of Government, Universities and Industry
- El Programa de Agendas de Investigación como intento de asociar a los tres sectores: Experiencias en Venezuela (in Spanish only), by Ignacio Avalos Gutiérrez
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