New forms of regionalization of higher education in Latin America: the university network

Abstract

In this article, the different dynamics of regionalization of higher in Latin America as historical processes of power spaces within societies and university education systems are analyzed, and focuses on how these inequalities have reinforced capital human regions. A typology of the forms of public and private university in Latin America regionalization is proposed, and their different impacts criteria formulated in flames skills acquisition, arising from the empowerment of educational processes. In the new regional and university context it is argued that institutional differentiation result of the emergence of a university network that promotes regionalization in greater empowerment , relevance occurs and coordination at the local level.