<b>The transformation of accreditation processes: challenges and recommendations </b> - doi: 10.4025/actascieduc.v36i1.19391
Some recommendations are provided to the challenges that the evaluation and accreditation processes raise to higher education systems in Latin-American and theCaribbean. Necessary and urgent changes are required in the systems of evaluation and accreditation in the region. We have identified seven c...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Estadual de Maringá
2014-02-01
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| Series: | Acta Scientiarum: Education |
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| Online Access: | http://186.233.154.254/ojs/index.php/ActaSciEduc/article/view/19391 |
| Summary: | Some recommendations are provided to the challenges that the evaluation and accreditation processes raise to higher education systems in Latin-American and theCaribbean. Necessary and urgent changes are required in the systems of evaluation and accreditation in the region. We have identified seven challenges: Inequity; formalism and bureaucracy; uncritical acceptance of the ‘World Class Universities’ model; preference of indicators measuring economic growth (often not sustainable) to the detriment of indicators that measure key values such as equity, social harmony and environment sustainability; the challenge of ‘academic corruption’; the challenge of international accreditation; and the challenge of innovation. Some policies and actions are recommended to face adequately these challenges and to carry out a transformation within the evaluation and accreditation processes. |
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| ISSN: | 2178-5198 2178-5201 |