836-B5-022 The Costa Rican Public University in the 21st Century. The case of the University of Costa Rica
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This research has as its subject the study of the Costa Rican public university in the twenty-first century, which implies placing it in the national and international context, emphasizing the socioeconomic, political and educational transformations that have occurred in Costa Rica in recent decades, as well as in the macro trends of higher education in the world and in Latin America. The approaches made by UNESCO at the World Conference on Higher Education (2009) will also be taken as a frame of reference. Given the volume of topics to be investigated and the complexity of these, the University of Costa Rica has been selected as the main object of study. Now, in the wide universe that constitutes this institution, five core axes have been defined on which the research will be based: a) financing, b) academic development of teachers, c) regionalization policies, d) the system of admission and e) the accreditation processes. The research and analysis of these axes will be done from the year 2000 and will necessarily involve relating them to others such as autonomy, evaluation, organizational and budgetary structure, and academic excellence, just to name a few of them.
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Round Table
June, 2016: “Entering of Costa Rica to the Organization for Cooperation and Economical Development, OCDE: repercussions for the country's educational system and for Costa Rican education in general”.
Publications
June, 2015: Support policies in teaching, IV International Congress on University Teaching, University of Vigo, Spain.
October, 2016: Sources of funding from the University of Costa Rica and its impact on institutional development. IV International Congress of University Governance. University of Concepción, Chile.
December, 2016: Privatization and educational trade in Latin America. Central America Sub Regional Meeting, Mexico and Dominican Republic. San Jose, Costa Rica.
October, 2017: The budget of the University of Costa Rica. Congress of CIDICER, Western Campus
November, 2017: The accreditation of careers at the University of Costa Rica. V Ibero-American Congress on University Governance, Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico.
Published Articles
Vargas, J. Á. (2016). Políticas de apoyo a la docencia. En P. Membriela, N. Casado M.I. Cabreiros (Eds.). La Docencia Universitaria: desafíos y perspectivas. Ourense, España, Educación Editora, pp. 423-428.
Vargas, J. Á. (2015) Funciones y retos del Consejo Universitario de la Universidad de Costa Rica. En F.A. Ganga & J.B. Abello, Gobernanza Universitaria. Aportes desde una perspectiva Latioamericana. Santiago: Ril Editores, pp. 237-249.
Meoño, R. (2015). Autonomía universitaria. Conquista en permanente disputa. En F.A. Ganga & J.B. Abello, Gobernanza Universitaria. Aportes desde una perspectiva Latioamericana. Santiago: Ril Editores, pp. 127-150.