Argentina

Partners situated in Argentina

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Argentina in a nutshell

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (Spanish: República Argentina), is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city. It is the second largest country in South America and eighth in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico, Colombia and Spain are more populous. Its continental area is 2,766,890 square kilometres (1,068,300 sq mi), between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south.

Argentina borders Paraguay and Bolivia to the north, Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast, and Chile to the west and south.

The population of Argentina is just over 40 million.

Argentina has the second highest Human Development Index level and the second highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in purchasing power parity in Latin America. Argentina's nominal GDP is the 30th largest in the world; but when purchasing power is taken into account, its total GDP makes it the 23rd largest economy in the world.

The country is currently classified as an Upper-Middle Income Country or as a secondary emerging market by the World Bank.

Argentina is also one of the G-20 major economies.

Argentina education policy

Ministerio de Educación de la Nación.

http://www.me.gov.ar/spu/dngu/ (Official web site, Spanish)

Dirección Nacional de Gestión Universitaria National University Management

Actions

- Coordinate the process of creation, modification and deletion of Private Universities Academic units or less, and the licensing procedures and curriculum in connection with the CONEAU (Comisión Nacional de Evaluación y Acreditación Universitaria, National Commission for University Evaluation and Accreditation).

- Understanding the regulation, monitoring and control of the processes of creation, modification and deletion of Private Universities Academic Units or less and in processing the update curricula in connection with the CONEAU.

- Provide technical assistance in their areas of responsibility to the institutions that require it.

- Develop proposals for minimum hourly charges, core curriculum and standards of professional practice intensity in the careers concerned.

- Propose criteria for national validity of academic degrees and titles and understood in its application.

- To perform the duties attached to the Technical Secretariat of the Council of Universities.

National Director: Mr. Jorge STEIM

http://www.coneau.edu.ar/index.php?idioma=en (English) CONEAU was established to foster improvements of the university education in Argentina. Its main functions are

• To evaluate projects submitted by new public and private universities.
• To perform external evaluation of university institutions.
• To grant accreditation to government regulated undergraduate programs.
• To grant accreditation to graduate programs.
• To conduct evaluation processes for accreditation of private evaluation and accreditation organizations.

Virtual Campuses in HE

Interesting Virtual Campus Initiatives

• Universidad Virtual de Quilmes

Interesting Programmes

• Universidad del Salvador
• Universidad Maimónides

Re.ViCa Case-study

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