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Peru and its new challenge in higher education: Towards a research university

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  • Carlos Lavalle
  • Victor Luis de Nicolas

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The paradigm of research universities linked to the emergence of university rankings has unified and universalized the criteria relating to the quality of higher education. This situation has led to multiple responses across global society, which has started rating the quality of higher education systems through these rankings, supported by a series of indicators aligned to the characteristics of research universities. Given that the quality of a country’s higher education is one of the fundamental pillars of its development, many countries have started to take government action in this respect. In the case of Peru this has not taken long, with the approval of Law 30220 in 2014. This aims to regulate the quality of higher education through a series of specific conditions governed by a newly created body known as SUNEDU. This article uses a Delphi panel to analyze the existing relationship between the conditions imposed by SUNEDU and the research universities’ intrinsic characteristics. During the Delphi panel a consensus was reached through an acceptable and stable level of responses, resulting in confirmation that there is alignment between the conditions imposed by SUNEDU and the intrinsic characteristics of research universities.

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  • Carlos Lavalle & Victor Luis de Nicolas, 2017. "Peru and its new challenge in higher education: Towards a research university," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(8), pages 1-12, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0182631
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182631
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