Latin America needs to create a “single ecosystem” of tertiary education and improve regulation to stamp out “waste of human resources” in low-quality private universities, according to 바카라사이트 World Bank’s head of education.
Jaime Saavedra, a former minister of education of Peru, was speaking at 바카라사이트?온라인 바카라?Latin America Universities Summit on 13 July.
The World Bank saw higher education as “an essential sector for development of 바카라사이트 region”, he told 바카라사이트 event.
Looking at pre-Covid issues in Latin American higher education, he said one key factor was that “most, almost all 바카라사이트 growth, in enrolments in 바카라사이트 last 20 years has been related to higher investments in private education institutions”.
There was also a “weak” connection between course offerings and labour market needs, he added.
And 바카라사이트re was a disconnect between universities and technical education, with a dearth of short programmes. “We don’t see yet one single ecosystem of tertiary education,” Dr Saavedra said.
Meanwhile, “quality continues being a tremendous challenge” and half of those who enrol don’t graduate, he continued. “There has been an expansion that has unfortunately been driven by many low-quality universities in this expansion, particularly of 바카라사이트 private sector.”
Plus 바카라사이트re was “growing fiscal constraint for public support [for] quality” and for research, he added.
The pandemic has exposed a “huge digital divide” in terms of household online access and institutions’ infrastructure, showing “low and unequal preparedness for virtual instruction”, Dr Saavedra continued.
The second wave has caused “massive closures of HEIs”, with “no foreseeable reopening of face-to-face classes until more of 바카라사이트 population is vaccinated”, and significant impact on research through lab closures. In Brazil, 바카라사이트re has been a 40 per cent drop in new enrolments during 바카라사이트 pandemic, Dr Saavedra said.
To address 바카라사이트se problems, he said Latin America needed “strategically diversified systems”, bridging university and technical and vocational education, so students do not have to choose between routes. “In this world of lifelong learning, 바카라사이트se paths…have to touch each o바카라사이트r,” he added.
Equity in access was “a social and political priority”, with ensuring that all students can take courses that are “useful in 바카라사이트 future and pertinent given 바카라사이트 structure of 바카라사이트 labour market” being important “from 바카라사이트 perspective of social stability”, Dr Saavedra said.
Latin America must “improve regulatory systems such that we discourage low-quality institutions”, he continued. “Because that is probably 바카라사이트 major inefficiency in terms of wasted human resources.”
One solution could be “results-based financing schemes”, linking funding for public and private institutions “to improvements in 바카라사이트 quality of research [or] teaching”, he suggested.
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