Autonomy and quality assurance: reflections for latin american universities
International Journal of Development Research
Autonomy and quality assurance: reflections for latin american universities
Received 20th April, 2018; Received in revised form 18th May, 2018; Accepted 26th June, 2018; Published online 30th July, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Armenio Pérez-Martínez and Aimara Rodráguez-Fernández. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
At present, universities have to respond to social demands, without losing autonomy. For this reason, it must perform processes in the most transparent way possible so that society knows and endorses what happens in it. Quality assurance in universities tends to promote autonomy and decentralization, but it is a challenge to focus more on solving the main problems of society.
