Abstract

LOPEZ SEGRERA, Francisco. The transformation of accreditation processes: challenges and recommendations. Acta Scientiarum. Education [online]. 2014, vol.36, n.01, pp.105-113. ISSN 2178-5201.

Some recommendations are provided to the challenges that the evaluation and accreditation processes raise to higher education systems in Latin-American and the Caribbean. 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

Keywords : Accreditation; Evaluation; Higher Education; Innovation.

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