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The Imperialist's Conditionalities for Peripheral Higher Education Privatization Policy
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Slider do Nascimento de Paula, Alisson; Costa Pereira, Karla Raphaella; Ferreira Costa, Frederico Jorge; Rodrigues Lima, Kátia Regina – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2019
The globalization of capital implied worldwide consequences, evidencing in the new international division of labor a global imperialist policy in which it is effective through its accumulation by spoliation. Educational policy does not limit its ideological basis only to the local precepts of its National State. From the conjuncture of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Privatization
The Social Condition of Higher Education: Globalisation and (beyond) Regionalisation in Latin America
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Gomes, Alfredo M.; Robertson, Susan L.; Dale, Roger – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2012
This article aims to discuss the relationship between higher education (HE), globalisation and regionalism projects focusing on HE in Latin America and Brazil. It is claimed that HE has predominantly taken the diverse, yet concerted and co-ordinated routes of globalisation and regionalisation and, by doing so, been profoundly transformed. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Correlation
Higher Education Reform in Brazil: Reinforcing Marketization
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de Siqueira, Angela C. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2009
Higher education in Brazil began based on institutions organized as isolated establishments, and mostly privately owned. Nonetheless, public institutions created as universities and developing research activities and other services became the desired ideal for higher education. The first educational institutions in Brazil were created in the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Universities, Democracy
Is There a Latin American Model of the University?
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Bernasconi, Andres – Comparative Education Review, 2008
Recently, Latin America has seen the advent of research activities to meet the call for research that long preceded them and of the full-time research faculty who engage in them. These developments have taken place as the region partakes in contemporary worldwide trends that have affected universities elsewhere: the consequences of the increased…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Educational Change, Economic Change
The Growth of Private Higher Education in Brazil: Implications for Equity and Quality
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McCowan, Tristan – Journal of Education Policy, 2004
There has been a dramatic growth in private higher education in Brazil in recent years. The World Bank has promoted this expansion on the basis of the private providers' ability to ensure a rapid increase in enrolment, to improve quality through competition between institutions and to bring benefits for society at little public cost. However, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, Private Colleges
Higher Education in Brazil: Recent Evolution and Current Issues.
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de Mello e Souza, Alberto – Higher Education, 1991
Issues in the evolution of Brazil's higher education system are discussed, including growth during the 1970s in the private sector, the need to improve access to education for low-income groups, and the need for a system of loans and scholarships to compensate for inequities in elementary and secondary education. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Finance