Peru and its new challenge in higher education: Towards a research university.

ABSTRACT: The paradigm of research universities linked to the emergence of university rankings has unified and universalized the criteria relating to the quality of higher education. This situation has led to multiple responses across global society, which has started rating the quality of higher education systems through these rankings, supported by a series of indicators aligned to the characteristics of research universities. Given that the quality of a country's higher education is one of the fundamental pillars of its development, many countries have started to take government action in this respect. In the case of Peru this has not taken long, with the approval of Law 30220 in 2014. This aims to regulate the quality of higher education through a series of specific conditions governed by a newl

SUBMITTER: Lavalle C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5546694 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature