Higher Education in Latin America and the Challenges of the 21st Century

by Simon Schwartzman

Book Overview

This book presents an overview of the region with one of the fastest growing higher education sectors in the world. Until the beginning of the 1980s, universities were restricted to the elites in Latin American countries, with less than 5 million students enrolled in its courses. In the last four decades, however, the region went through a boom of higher education institutions and now has more than 25 million students enrolled in more than 3,800...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030442659
• ISBN13: 9783030442651
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"