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Barroilhet, Agustín; Ortiz, Rocío; Quiroga, Bernardo F.; Silva, Mónica – Higher Education Policy, 2022
The university accreditation system in Chile appears to be influenced by tensions between interest groups from well-established institutions and newer (private) institutions. These institutions depend to a certain extent on accreditation decisions to obtain indirect public funding. However, the system relies on faculty nominated by conglomerates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accreditation (Institutions), Bias, Higher Education
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Mac-lean, Claudia; Vargas, Luis Santiago; Uribe, Gonzalo; Aldea, Cristian; Lares, Lorna; Mercado, Oscar – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a panoramic and systematic view of 10 Sustainable Campus Network (SCN) universities' internal entities in charge of the sustainability effort -- such as offices, committees, units, programs, or other, showing how some institutions have gained increasing deployment and momentum. However, their…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Campuses, Networks, Universities
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Julianna Paola Ramirez Lozano; Leslie Bridshaw Araya; Renato Peñaflor Guerra – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: The study analyzed how the service-learning (SL) methodology can become a university social responsibility (USR) strategy that generates shared value for the university and its stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach: This qualitative and exploratory-descriptive research had a nonexperimental field and cross-sectional design that used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Universities, Social Responsibility
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Benz-Camino, Mariechen; Ramírez-Valdivia, Martha T.; Morales-Casetti, Marjorie; Sirias, Danilo – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to present the lessons learned during the design and implementation of a quality assurance system (QAS) in an academic unit and considers the regulatory changes to institutional accreditation in Chilean higher education, the international standard ISO 21001:2018, and the stakeholders' requirements.…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Accreditation (Institutions), Higher Education
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Busco, Carolina; Dooner, Cecilia; d'Alencon, Andrés – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
This paper presents a brief approach to the results of a case study of a university within the Chilean higher education system, focusing on the effects of self-assessment on the university's management of undergraduate and postgraduate programs from 2011 to 2014. The research hypothesis is that the university's management, as a dependent variable,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Self Evaluation (Groups), Educational Assessment