Equity and Inclusion
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Global universities address gender equality but gaps remain to be closed
Report from UNESCO-IESALC and Times Higher Education examines performance of 776 global universities across 18 indicators Female students outnumber male students, but there is ... -
Join the launching of two reports on gender equality in HE to celebrate International Women’s Day #March8
In 111 years, since International Women’s Day was founded, gender equality has advanced significantly. In spite of great achievements -like women’s right to ... -
Cycle Challenges of Inclusion in Higher Education: “Leaving no one behind”
Inclusion is undoubtedly one of the great challenges of higher education. The topic is so relevant and its edges are so diverse that UNESCO ... -
Cycle Challenges of Inclusion in Higher Education: Webinar 1 “Educational Access Dimension”
Ideas from the speakers –The current issue of inclusion… Leaving no one behind, Francesc Pedró, Director of UNESCO IESALC. It is the first time ... -
New partnership between IESALC and the Open Society Foundations to promote the right to higher education
UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC) announces a new partnership with the Open Society Foundations (OSF) to ... -
Indigenous peoples and Afro-Descendants face multiple racism in higher education | jornada.com
In higher education institutions, indigenous and Afro-descendant students not only face obstacles related to their socioeconomic situation but also to their linguistic differences and ... -
Higher education both fights and reproduces racism
The webinar Racism in the Academy: Global perspectives on multiple forms of racism and struggles for equity revealed how higher education systems legitimate and reproduce racism ... -
#18Nov | Webinar Racism in the Academy: Global perspectives on multiple forms of racism and struggles for equity
Racism in the Academy: Global perspectives on multiple forms of racism and struggles for equity is the webinar to be hosted by the UNESCO ... -
Equity in access and success in higher education at crossroads – new report shows
A new collection of articles from 17 leading figures in the field of higher education equity from across the world argues that we are ... -
New report unveils financial aid measures taken in the region for higher education students during the pandemic
In the region, more than 50% of higher education tuition is financed by households. In Chile, Brazil and Peru, these percentages are 84%, 75% ... -
PEDRÓ: “Universities have to reinvent themselves to make the leap in quality and equity” / Page 12
Within the framework of a conversation at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Argentina), Pedró spoke with the Página 12 team. Photo Leandro ... -
Has the female advantage put an end to gender inequalities? A report and a debate seek to provide an answer
To commemorate the International Women’s Day on March 8, the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC) and ... -
UNESCO IESALC Report asserts that gender inequality in higher education remains a universal issue
Women made up a slightly larger share (53%) of graduates with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in 2014, but at the doctoral level the share ... -
Understanding access to higher education in the last two decades
By Daniele Vieira, Takudzwa Mutize and Jaime Roser Chinchilla | 21 December 2020 A recent study developed by UNESCO IESALC entitled Towards universal access ... -
Universal Access to Higher Education remains a pending task
According to the IESALC Report, although access to higher education has doubled in the last 20 years, inequities persist. As part of the launching ... -
UNESCO IESALC report reveals that access to higher education increased from 19% to 38% in the last two decades
Men’s enrolment increased from 19% to 36%, while women’s enrolment went from 19% to 41%, becoming the main beneficiaries of increased access to tertiary ...