Opening-up higher education in emerging economies: autonomy and integrity on the rise of globalization

Abstract

We focus this paper on higher education systems and related public policies in emerging societies and developing regions worldwide, with emphasis for Latin America, and observe that effective institutional autonomy and integrity of modern universities are to be promoted in a context where building human capital is a priority and alliances and partnerships among universities worldwide, as well as between them and industry, gain significant relevance. For those societies and regions, our analysis identifies ten different themes oriented towards norms that may be helpful in guiding the development of higher education systems and related public policies.