Ensuring The Quality Of University Education In Ibero-America: Trends, Absences And Challenges

Abstract

The guarantee of quality of superior education on a global level is a vital process to achieve a culture of continuous melhoria, for the benefit of society. It seeks to offer a systematic view of the trends and absences in the process of guaranteeing the quality of university education in Ibero-America, using the dimensions of quality, second scientific articles in journals indexed in two databases: Scopus and Scielo; between 2012 and July 2021. Only considered as criteria: the year and the country of publication, the trends and absences in each dimension of quality and the proposed challenges. Two 85 articles, or greater number correspond to Spain and Chile; The predominant tendency is to investigate the dimension of the quality of the internal and external guarantee structure, and the main absence is of articles on the dimension of the quality of the facilities, academic resources and support; com barely 1% (n=1). The challenges in guaranteeing quality are varied in every dimension, with some of them being online or virtual education, which emerged in 2013, but has become important again due to the COVID 19 pandemic, in addition to achieving a culture of quality and identity, homogenization versus innovation, among others.