New Perspectives in Science Education

Edition 13

Accepted Abstracts

The Strategic Importance of Higher Education in Portuguese-Speaking Countries and Multilateral Cooperation as an Enabler of Academic Mobility and Knowledge Transfer

Arlinda Manuela Santos Cabral, Cics.Nova – Centro Interdisciplinar em Ciências Sociais Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)

Abstract

Higher education has a decisive role to play in achieving the Sustainable Development Objectives of the United Nations Agenda 2030, as it contributes directly to socio-economic development and enhances progress and social well-being. Countries that do not invest in tertiary education will hardly be able to keep pace with the current context of globalization, characterized by complex and rapid changes resulting from theoretical, conceptual, methodological, scientific, technological and innovation advances, facing strong difficulties to benefit from the global knowledge-based economy. In the same way, they prevent the development of intellectual autonomy, which makes it possible to take over the management of natural, human, productive and economic resources, as a substitute for dependence on expatriate and foreign resources, without neglecting the growing importance of networks of cooperation between higher education institutions. In this sense, higher education public policies are a central issue. However, the internationalization of the higher education market has been the priority of several institutions, fostering increased academic mobility and the globalization of knowledge, placing developing countries in the need to choose to create their own training offer or to take advantage of existing in other countries, highlighting a protected market policy of higher education, or open market. Countries' membership of multilateral organizations that provide multilateral cooperation provides opportunities for their higher education institutions, such as the sharing of information and good practices in the various aspects that contribute to the quality of these institutions. This paper intends to present a brief description of higher education in the nine countries that make up the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and Timor-Leste), belonging to four continents (Africa, America, Asia and Europe) and linked by a common language, using the methodology of comparative analysis. The dimensions under analysis will consist of legal regulations on higher education, the socio-legal and contextual framework of higher education institutions and the presentation of the public’s that access them, as well as the main national aspirations regarding higher education, in favour of socioeconomic development national.

Keywords: Higher education; quality assurance; academic mobility; multilateral cooperation; Portuguese-Speaking Countries;

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