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EL ETAT DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS EN EL DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE

strategies that lead to work on contextual problems and their solutions. In coincidence with
Flor (2005), cited by Novo (2009), it is necessary not only to pose problems but also to

present alternatives, and the more viable they are and the more grounded they are, the more

likely they are to be considered.

This leads us to think that institutions of higher education must establish their quality
horizon and move towards it from the core of their mission, working internal management

mechanisms with permanent programs of self-evaluation and feedback, in view of self-

regulation harmonized with external evaluation.

3. CHALLENGES OF THE QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

As society changes, it also changes the perception of higher education. In the beginning of

the implementation the mechanisms of quality assurance were more oriented to provide
public assurance of the academic quality. The educational offerings were expanding and their

variety merited the rendering of accounts to society. It is necessary to undertake the path

towards the search for meaning, to the evaluation of its purpose as a social and political
institution.

More specifically, it is necessary to propose a second generation of indicators that
contemplate estimating the value of substantive functions of higher education, avoiding

process simulation and generating a new academic quality awareness on Higher Education

Institutions. It is necessary to rigorously study the current models, if they consider the
universities based on their nature, characteristics, ideas or rather, as some authors point out

tend to homogenize the programs based on the standardization of these indicators.

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