La OECD ha puesto en circulación, en dos volúmenes, su informe “Educación Terciaria para la Sociedad del Conocimiento” (por ahora solamente en inglés). Ya hemos destacado la omportancia de esta publicación, seguramente la más completa revisión a nivel mundial de sistemas y políticas de educación superior.

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Índice

Executive summary
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Setting the Stage: Impact, Trends and Challenges of Tertiary Education
Chapter 3. Setting the Right Course: Steering Tertiary Education .
Chapter 4. Matching Funding Strategies with National Priorities
Chapter 5. Assuring and Improving Quality
Chapter 6. Achieving Equity
Chapter 7. Enhancing the Role of Tertiary Education in Research and Innovation .
Chapter 8. The Academic Career: Adapting to Change .
Chapter 9. Strengthening Ties with the Labour Market
Chapter 10. Internationalisation: Shaping Strategies in the National Context
Chapter 11. What Next? The Challenges of Policy Implementation

Breve sinopsis de las recomenadiones:

In today’s knowledge-driven global economy, countries need to build on tertiary education to generate innovation, sustain competitiveness and boost economic growth. A new OECD report, Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society, offers policy recommendations to help meet these goals.

The report draws on the OECD Thematic Review of Tertiary Education, a study of tertiary education policy in 24 countries. It investigates tertiary education policy across its many facets, from governance, funding and quality assurance to equity, research and innovation, academic career, links to the labour market, internationalisation and policy implementation.

Among its recommendations:

Goals – Ensure that tertiary education contributes to economic and social objectives: foster links to employers, communities and labour markets; promote effective university-industry links for research and innovation.

Governance – Devise sound instruments to steer tertiary education: improve the capacity of ministries to develop policy and evaluate performance; establish and maintain a balance between institutional autonomy and public accountability.

Funding – Develop a funding strategy to optimise the contribution of tertiary education to society and the economy: cost-sharing between students and government; a comprehensive student support system; subsidies related to the benefits tertiary programmes bring to society.

Quality Assurance – Emphasise quality and relevance: improve quality assurance frameworks; develop a strong quality culture; focus more on student outcomes.

Equity – Give greater prominence to equity in national tertiary education policy: systematically monitor equity issues; devote significant resources to address inequities.

Internationalisation – Position national systems in the international arena: develop a strategy and framework for internationalisation; encourage institutions to be more proactive internationally.