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EL ETAT DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS EN EL DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE

interests must be kept intact. They should be sustained in principles and institutional values
that mark the axiological horizon in which all actions are developed. Thus, a quality

education, conceived from the cosmovision of the actors leads to the thinking of lasting

strategies, where internal processes of quality assurance are developed in a continuous and

sustained way.

2. RETHINKING HIGHER EDUCATION

The challenges to which humanity is called, with bewildering facts, place higher education
institutions at the centre of action, to meld reality into horizons of dignified life. This raises

the need to create conditions for the consolidation of a quality higher education system in

line with the challenges presented by modernization and globalization.

In this scenario, quality assurance mechanisms adopted by countries and oriented to control

and to guarantee academic quality as well as the continuous improvement of higher

education institutions are effective tools to evaluate its purpose as a social and political
institutions. They are also efficient tools in the path for the search for meaning. This claims

the creative engagement and active participation in the mission of preserving the legitimate

rights of higher education users and society to receive quality.

In this way, quality processes should contribute to stimulate the education of intellectuals.

Intellectuals who promote the postulates of higher education as public good to the academic
community and the implications that this condition brings. They can then encourage critical

thinking within institutions, to try and influence pedagogical proposals and methodological

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