Assim caminha o Mercosul: o conflito entre qualidade e efetividade no Acordo de Admissão de Títulos e Graus Universitários para o Exercício de Atividades Acadêmicas

Abstract

Higher education is being affected by regional integration process configured due to the creation of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and by conditions of international relations. The emergence of new information technology and communication and the way how knowledge is transmitted has produced additional requirements to universities with a view to academic mobility, courses´s accreditation and recognition of degrees and diplomas. The educational protocols signed within Mercosur should approximate the institutions and become quicker the cooperation´s mechanisms. The Educational Sector of Mercosur was built on the basis of heterogeneous educational systems, however it hard advances. When we see the history of the evolution of this sector and its bureaucratic levels, and considering a broad framework of the internationalization of higher education, the goal of this research is to examine the conflicting relationship between safeguarding standards of quality and effectiveness of the Admission Agreement of University´s Degrees and Titles for Academic Activities´s Exercise in Member States of Mercosur.