Specialization in Higher Education Policy and Management
Graduate Course approved by the UNR Superior Council Res. No. 849/2022
Postgraduate degree with official recognition from CONEAU Res. Nº 051/2023
Director: Mgtr. Monica Priotti
Academic coordinator: Lawyer Antonella Pizzuto Grossi
:: RATIONALE:
The Postgraduate Course of Specialization in Higher Education Policy and Management aims to train high-level and qualified specialists for the management of higher education.
The growing complexity that university activity acquires today generates unprecedented demands on higher education managers. Management in educational institutions did not represent a major challenge for those who carried out academic and management functions. But, to the extent that the process of mass enrollment and the consequent expansion of the teaching and non-teaching body advanced, university life became more complex.
In this sense, the demands for transparency arising from the transformation of relations between the state and universities that occurred in the 90s imply the need to overcome the crisis management stage, to enter a more sustainable scenario in which Training and specific training can open new paths for the maintenance, expansion and improvement of institutions.
Improving the quality of management involves creatively using the available resources, building an interdisciplinary space for knowledge construction and exchange of experiences, taking advantage of the contributions of comparative education to delve into the functioning of the third level in other latitudes and learning from their experiences, to generate projects that, deeply rooted in our way of thinking and in the needs of the community, involve full use of the available potential; In short, it implies the ability to imagine and continue building
solid ties with society.
:: GOALS:
The General Objective of the Postgraduate Course of Specialization in Higher Education Policy and Management is to contribute to the improvement of the management of higher education institutions by providing students with systematic, updated and high-quality training that allows them to face the increasingly complex specific tasks with the necessary tools and global knowledge of the functions to be fulfilled.
The specific objectives to achieve with the students are:
● Deepen interdisciplinary knowledge about the theory and practice of the organization of intellectual work and the processes, structures and institutions of production, transmission and appropriation of knowledge.
● Acquire tools for understanding the management of higher education as a specific tool that facilitates the functioning of institutions.
● Enable critical reflection on the functioning of institutions and provide – based on comparative education – various useful tools for improving management.
:: MODE: In-person
:: DURATION: 395 hours
:: ACCREDITATION:
Those who pass all the academic requirements of this study plan will obtain the Title of Specialist in Higher Education Policy and Management.
:: TITLE PROFILE:
The Higher Education Policy and Management Specialist is a postgraduate with solid theoretical and technical training in the specific area. This will allow you to face the challenges of higher education management with interdisciplinary training in the theoretical field and adequate tools to address the complexity of educational problems in current contexts, such as the internationalization of education, the virtualization of processes management and university organization models that contemplate more cooperative and comprehensive dynamics.
:: ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
- Those who have a degree issued by the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, or equivalent degree awarded by Argentine, national, provincial or private, legally recognized universities.
- Graduates from foreign universities officially recognized in their respective countries, who have titles equivalent to those indicated in the previous section, duly certified. Its admission will not mean revalidation of the degree title.
- Those who do not have a university degree, but are eventually authorized to begin the admission process by the current Higher Education Law, and have professional and/or academic background that the Academic Commission of the Specialization Career considers sufficient for their admission. . For non-Spanish speaking foreign applicants, it will be an admission requirement to prove the independent intermediate level (B2) or higher of knowledge of the Spanish language. If admitted, they must prove prior to the defense of the
final work, the advanced level of knowledge of the Spanish language. Applicants will be able to accredit the levels previously indicated through the international DUCLE certificate (university diploma in competence in Spanish as a foreign language) and from the UNR or other international certifications recognized by the certification system for Spanish as a foreign language (SICELE).
:: CURRICULUM:
The Curriculum of the Specialization Career in Higher Education Policy and Management is face-to-face, has a total of 395 hours, distributed over two semesters and is organized through seven (7) subjects, two (2) Practice Integration Workshops and one (1) Final Work Workshop. The maximum time to present the Final Work is two years from the moment the Final Work Workshop subject is approved.
Subjects and minimum contents
The Specialization Course is planned to take place in two semesters.
- Philosophy and Epistemology of Higher Education
The philosophical bases of Higher Education. The “idea” of the university throughout history. The crisis of the modern university. The global transformation of Higher Education. Internationalization of Higher Education. - State and Public Policies of Higher Education
Higher education as Public Policy. The role of the State in the formulation and implementation of Public Policies. Public Policies and Higher Education: the public dimension of the university. Current debates.
- Higher Education Government
The notion of university government and the institutional political context. Forms and regime of government. Governance. The international experience. Here I would add the European agreements and in AL Mercosur. The peculiarities of the Argentine case. - Curriculum Policy and Management
The Curricular problem and the academic structure of the university. Curricular design models. Current debates. The curricular change. Current debates. Virtual environments. - Higher Education Evaluation
The debate around the evaluation of higher education. Models and organizational forms of evaluation. The international experience. The situation in Argentina. - Higher Education Financing
Schools of economic thought and Higher Education. The sources of university financing. The contributions of the comparative experience. - Quality Policy and Management
Quality in the management processes of Universities. Evaluating organizations. Self-assessment, accreditation and quality assurance. Organizational problems. Demands for the application of improvement tools. - Final Workshop
The Workshop aims to assist in the preparation of the Final Work. The research activities are planned based on a series of tutoring meetings scheduled with the students. In the meetings, reflection on the practice of research will be carried out. The formulation of the research project. Identification and clipping of the topic. Its feasibility and projection. The state of the matter and its importance in delimiting the topic. The construction of the topic in question. Foundation and theoretical framework. Methodology. The argumentative dimension of the project: internal coherence, citation strategies, forms of bibliography organization. - Practice Integration Workshop
Epistemological theories about the theory-practice relationship. Processes of socialization of practice. Practice evaluation.
Critical analysis of the assumptions that support the practices. Construction of analysis devices for the information collected. Interpretation of practices based on the various analysis procedures. Preparation of diagnoses, institutional evaluation and management projects according to the areas where they carry out the practice. Assessment of the
processes of socialization of knowledge and practices.
5.2 Final Evaluation
The degree will end with the presentation of a Final Project that will consist of the treatment of a problem of an integrative nature. It is an individual work, which may be theoretical in nature or field work, a practice report, a case study, among other possibilities. In the case of choosing to present a project, it will include a descriptive-analytical design of the actions to be carried out based on the proposed objectives, indicating the previous diagnosis, the feasibility conditions and a prospective evaluation of its results. The student must demonstrate through this Final Project his/her capacity and competence in the professional activities carried out, as well as the achievement and integration of the general objectives of the curriculum taken.
:: REPORTS:
espeducacionsuperior-cei@unr.edu.ar
Tel 0341 – 4201200 (int.309) Direct 0341-4802781
Maipú 1065, 3rd floor, of. 309
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