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Francisco de Asís University Institute (Instituto Universitario Francisco de Asis (UNIFA)) Specialization and Master's Degree in Higher Education
Francisco de Asís University Institute (Instituto Universitario Francisco de Asis (UNIFA))

Francisco de Asís University Institute (Instituto Universitario Francisco de Asis (UNIFA))

Specialization and Master's Degree in Higher Education

Maldonado Department, Uruguay

Master degree

Spanish

Sep 2024

On-Campus

Key Summary

    About: The Specialization and Master's Degree in Higher Education equips students with knowledge in educational leadership, policy studies, and instructional design. The course focuses on contemporary issues affecting higher education and prepares graduates to create effective learning environments.
    Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue careers in academic administration, educational policy formation, curriculum development, or instructional coordination within universities and colleges.

The Program combines elements of training in theory and research, in order to enable graduates, depending on the case, the work of teaching, management, administration, and analysis of the working conditions of higher education, as well as in space of the consultancy. All this aimed at strengthening institutional strengthening and reengineering processes, which show a scenario of growing and sustained growth in the country and the region.

The Specialization and Master's Program in Higher Education aim to collaborate proactively and systematically in the rethinking and elucidation of the old and new challenges presented by the complex and opaque problems that operate in the Higher Education space.

For this, it is proposed to rethink the role of the training of its administrators and teachers, in the context of a process of mass enrollment and the consequent expansion of the teaching and non-teaching body, everything that supposes a more dense and complex reality, especially faced with the challenge of overcoming the articulation between rising enrollment, decreasing budgets, requirements for improving academic quality and accountability.