PRELIMINARY PERCEPTION OF REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS IN IBEROAMERICAN'S UNIVERSITY SYSTEMS: SOME RESEARCH ADVANCEMENTS by Francisco Ganga Contreras

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BSC Modelling for ACAFE's Universities system Modelando o BSC para as Universidades do Sistema ACAFE by Manuel Portugal Ferreira, Victor Meyer Jr, Fernando Ribeiro Serra, Mauricio Lima

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Second anthropologies in Latin America: questions and reclamations by Esteban Krotz

“…Next, the article discusses certain current transformations of human civilization in general and of the university system specifically, being both the contexts where anthropological knowledge is generated. …”
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THE MASSIFICATION PROCESS IN CHINESE HIGHER EDUCATION by Danilo de Melo Costa, Qiang Zha

“…This paper demonstrates the massification process in higher education using as reference China, which reached in a few years the largest university system in the world. To do this, we present in the theoretical reference the Government intervention and its economic responsibilities, the main challenges of global higher education and the effects of globalization on this level of education. …”
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Assessing competences in sustainability in teaching degrees and post-degrees: a proposal of a tool by Silvia Albareda Tiana, Pilar Azcárate Goded, José Manuel Muñoz Rodríguez, Rocio Valderrama Hernández, Jorge Ruiz Morales

“…This rubric can be a useful instrument for the assessment of CS in the degrees of education in the Spanish university system.…”
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Public forms of anti-authoritarian protest in Brazil in 1968. Student leadership and social complicity by José Luis Hernández Huerta

“…In Brazil, students emerged as a social, political and academic group with an especially strong commitment to democratising and modernising the university system, a movement at the vanguard of non-violent resistance to the civil-military dictatorship established in 1964, and a public actor capable of mobilising and attracting other sectors of the community to their cause, the latter having a specific clout and capacity to influence. …”
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Mathematical modelling as a virtual learning environment for teacher education programs by Milton Rosa, Daniel Clark Orey

“…This study was developed with 76 students enrolled in a teacher education program in Mathematics, which is part of the Brazilian Open University System, at the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. …”
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Universidad y transformaciones de la Sociedad de la Información en Chile. Opiniones del profesorado y alumnado de instituciones privadas acreditadas y no acreditadas / University a... by Emilio Torres Rojas

“…Globalization, market economy, information society and the processes of accreditation and quality assurance have meant profound changes in the operations of the university system. In Latin America, warns a diffuse impact of these changes have on other academic processes, such as teaching and learning, innovation in curriculum, career building, networking, management and institutional accreditation processes. …”
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Por una sociología del trabajo académico La precarización del trabajo de enseñar e investigar en la Universidad by Juan José Castillo Alonso, Paloma Moré Corral

“…The specific subject of this case study are also, and mainly, researchers and young teachers: we try to analyze their careers and labour strategies, academic and vital, so to understand, from his or her point of view, through their experiences, the transformations of the Spanish university system and the effects these have on the lives of those who undertake the academic career. …”
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La deserción estudiantil en la educación superior: el caso de la Universidad de Costa Rica by Allan Abarca Rodríguez, María Alejandra Sánchez Vindas

“…One aspect, among others, is that not entering into the favourite career encourages the decision of the drop out, that the economic factor is not a determining issue for desertion, and that students may leave the Institution but not the University System because they incorporate themselves in other available options. …”
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Validación del inventario de autoeficacia para inteligencias múltiples revisado (IAMI-R) en una muestra de estudiantes universitaria / Validation of Self-efficacy Inventory for Mul... by Emilse Durán-Aponte, María Antonieta Elvira-Valdés, Lydia Pujol

“…It’s recommended that future studies the development of research lines related to academic performance, motivation and retention in university system. …”
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De la tolerancia religiosa a la libertad de conciencia: un viaje inconcluso (siglos xvi-xxi) by José María Martínez de Pisón

“…What this article seeks to show is that despite the changes that have taken place in our societies, the demand for a universal system of rights, with attendant guarantees and means of effective enforcement, is still a valid strategy in a democratic society and a state under the rule of law. …”
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Análisis de las funciones del profesorado universitario y sus limitaciones para realizar investigación / Universities functions analysis teaching staff and obstacles for research by Marco Antonio Zamora Antuñano, Jesús Salvador Zamora Aboytes, José Antonio Cano López

“…The access of teachers to certain benefits was established In 2007 through Improvement Teaching Staff Program by the National Technological Universities System in Mexico. Research is the area where teachers have the hardest access to such benefits.  …”
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