19 articles in this issue
Javier Manuel Valle López,Francesc Pedró
Those of us who coordinated this monograph, and singed this presentation, sought to address some issues we considered relevant regarding the alignment between Supranational Education and Higher Education. We wanted to match some hypothesis we initially ha... see more
Ana Capilla Casco
Higher education is one of the top priority OEI’s lines of action, according to the mandate granted by the Iberoamerican Education ministers to the organization. This is explained by the increasing number of university students and the fact higher educati... see more
Francesc Pedró García
Higher education quality assurance agencies have expanded around the world in a very short time as an attempt to professionalize the public regulation of processes of enormous complexity in a sector characterized by a proverbial autonomy of institutions. ... see more
María Matarranz
Two decades have passed from the Sorbonne Declaration in 1999 to the present day, a period of time in which we have witnessed the great changes that have occurred in higher education systems in many countries of the world, specifically the countries belon... see more
Irma Briasco
This paper presents the progress of a study carried out within the framework of the MERCOSUR Nucleus of Studies and Research in Higher Education (NEIES, 2020). In it, a characterization was made, from a comparative perspective, of the offer of technologic... see more
Geo Saura,Katia Caballero
This article examines the processes involved in the digitalisation of Higher Education. The main aim is to analyse how digital capitalism, governing by digits, the power of digital metrics and the academic networks are making changes in the production of ... see more
Alexandra Carrasco González
The influence exerted by supranational organizations, such as the European Union (EU) in the configuration of educational policies, forces us to include the supranational sphere in the study of educational trends. A growing trend in the field of higher ed... see more
David Menéndez Álvarez-Hevia,Reyes Hernández-Castilla
This article provides a theoretical reflection on the challenges associated to the practices of marketisation and the economising trend of higher education. We refer to the English university experience to illustrate how the tendency to marketisation tran... see more
Juan García-Gutiérrez,Carlos Corrales Gaitero
The constant transformation that the institutions of higher education experiment and, particularly, the university assumes a re-consideration of their shapes, methodology, and missions, as well as the relationships established with society. Therefore, we ... see more
Soledad Rappoport,Bianca Thoilliez,Tania Alonso-Sainz
Different authors report a deep transformation of the classic mission of the University which this article proposes to identify as new paradigms (lifelong learning and learning based competencies), new perspectives (internationalization and employability)... see more
Ainhoa Resa Ocio,Teresa Rabazas Romero
We are at a time when gender equality is understood as a matter of human rights and social justice. For this reason, in the frame of development of a democratic Europe, social movements demand a gender equality perspective in all educational stages. Howev... see more
Carmen Tortosa Álvarez
This article tackles one of the relevant issues related to the professionalization of school principals’ role: their pre-service training or, in other words, the mandatory training they receive before they can take the roles as public-school princip... see more
Alba María López Melgarejo,Norberto López Nuñez
The transfer of the Spanish State to the Autonomous Communities with full competences in education during the last two decades of the 20th century, currently allows two different levels to be found where official curricula are developed: the national and ... see more
Borja Mateu-Luján
Despite the fact that there are many studies that identify that the Music Education provides numerous benefits to all those students who study it, the truth is that in Spain there is a regression of its presence in the Compulsory Education as the differen... see more
Encarnación Sánchez Lissen,Alicia Sianes Bautista
India is about to face great challenges in the upcoming years, some of them are going to have an economic, social or even technological nature. In spite of being an emerging economy that during the last twenty years has considerably reduced its extreme po... see more
Ana Ancheta Arrabal
Ricardo Gaete Quezada
Latin American higher education in recent decades has experienced the main world trends, relative to the massification of student access, insufficient state funding, increase of private institutions in the tertiary education system, as well as a regional ... see more
Débora Isabel Ramos Torres
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become entrenched in higher education institutions (HEIs) for their commitment to training people with relevant key competencies to address them. The article examines how teaching has been configured as the di... see more