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1 - #TheSouthAlsoKnows (NORRAG Project)

South America; Latin America; Africa; South Asia; South-East Asia; Eastern Europe; Pacific Rim
The "NORRAG - Network for International Policies and Cooperation in Education and Training" presents a project that aims at giving the so-called Global South a voice. With #TheSouthAlsoKnows Project, Education experts from the Global South can network, register for an expert database and publish articles on a wide variety of topics related to education and education policy on [...]

2 - Inclusión y equidad educativa (Sistema de Información de Tendencias Educativas en América Latina - SIETAL, Unesco)

Central America; Latin America; South America
With its portal SIETAL (information system on educational trends in Latin America), the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) provides information on inclusion and educational justice. You will find the original documents of political measures and legal regulations concerning inclusion and educational justice for all countries in Latin America. In [...]

3 - Discapacidad e inclusión social (Biblioguías. Biblioteca de la CEPAL, Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe, Naciones Unidas)

Central America; Latin America; South America; Caribbean
The online library of the "Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean" (CEPAL / ECLAC) of the United Nations provides information on "Disability and Social Inclusion" in this research guide (available only in Spanish). The site lists links to publications, data, statistics, reports and more. The information is divided into the following categories: * ECLAC and [...]

4 - Amadio, Massimo, 2009: Inclusive education in Latin America and the Caribbean. Exploratory analysis of the national reports presented at the 2008 International Conference on Education. In: Prospects 39, 293–305.

Latin America
[The English article is not available in Open Access. Nevertheless, you can find a Spanish version free of access and free of charge] This artcile provides a comparative analysis of inclusive education in different countries in Latin America (as of 2009). The analysis is based on a series of documents published as part of the 48. International Conference on Education by [...]

World Bank Publications for "inclusive education" and "Latin America"

Latin America; South America
This is a list of results from the World Bank's publications' database / repository. The publications are available in open access and for free. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

6 - Riberdis - the Iberian-American Repository on Disability

Central America; Latin America; South America; Spain
"Riberdis (Repositorio IBERoamericano sobre DIScapacidad) is an Iberian-American repository for literature on disability. It summarizes and disseminates the scientific production generated in Latin America and Spain on subjects related to disability, in a digital format and in free access. Riberdis is managed by the Spanish Centre for Disability Documentation (CEDD), [...]

7 - Observatorio Regional de Educación Inclusiva (OREI)

Central America; Latin America; South America
The "Regional Observatory for Inclusive Education" tracks and documents the status and development of inclusive education in Latin America. The website offers extensive information and resources. You can view them either by category or by country. The categories of observation include: data and statistics, laws, policies, practices, materials, publications, news, and more. [...]

8 - Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos de Educación Inclusiva (CELEI)

Central America; Latin America; South America
Website of the "Latin American Study Centre for Inclusive Education (CELEI)" in Chile. Unfortunately, the website is somewhat confusing and many parts lead to empty pages. Nevertheless, you get an idea of the research work done by the centre. You can find news on inclusive education in Latin America, on important events and more. One of the most interesting parts of the [...]

9 - Red Regional por la Educación Inclusiva (RREI)

Central America; Latin America; South America
The "Regional Network for Inclusive Education (RREI)" is a coalition of Latin American organisations of and for people with disabilities that aim at promoting inclusive education. The website provides a list of all member organisations in Latin America, information on the status of inclusion in the respective countries, information on actions, webinars, important documents and [...]

Latin American organisations with a focus on inclusive education / Organisations of parents with children with disabilities (as of Sept. 2018)

Central America; Latin America; South America
The pdf document lists Latin American organisations that focus on inclusive education and/ or children with disabilities. The list is sorted by country. It was provided by the Argentinian non-governmental "Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC)" (Association for Civil Rights) on their separate website for inclusion in education. This website is offline and the ADC does not [...]

11 - Red Intergubernamental Iberoamericana de Cooperación para la Educación de Personas con Necesidades Educativas Especiales (RIINEE)

Central America; Latin America; South America; Spain
Very rich website of the "Ibero-American Intergovernmental Cooperation Network for the Education of People with Special Educational Needs (RIINEE)". RIINEE was created in December 2004 on the occasion of the "1st Meeting on Educational Cooperation with Ibero-America on Special Education and Educational Inclusion" in Madrid. For all meetings that have taken place annually since [...]

12 - LALA Project - Building Capacity to Use Learning Analytics to Improve Higher Education in Latin America

Latin America
The LALA project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union. It is dedicated to the promotion and support of Learning Analytics (LA) in Latin America, especially in Higher Education. Among other things, the project created a framework for the design, implementation and use of LA, as well as plans for quality assurance and dissemination of LA. The website also [...]

Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that ratified the UN Disability Rights Convention (as of Nov. 2017) [courtesy translation]

Latin America; Caribbean
The Spanish pdf document linked here lists all countries of Latin America and the Caribbean that ratified the "UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" (CRPD). You will find the date of the signature and the date of the ratification - of the convention and the optional protocol. Countries that are not listed didn't sign the convention as of November 2017 [...]

Inclusive education in Latin America (Wikipedia English)

Latin America
This English Wikipedia article is based on Chapter 3. "Inclusive Education 2030: Issues and implications for Latin America". In: Youth and changing realities. Rethinking secondary education in Latin America (2017). It gives a short overview over the following aspects of inclusive education in latin America: 1 Combining traditional programmes with new approaches 2 Focusing [...]

15 - Red Latinoamericana de Profesionales de la Orientación (RELAPRO)

Latin America; Mexico
The website of the Latin American network for professionals in counselling and guidance provides the newsletter "Boletín Tiempo Latinoamericano", annoucements of events and links to journals from different Latin American countries including Spain and the network's own journal "Revista Latinoamericana de Orientación y Desarrollo Humano 'OrientAcción'". [Abstract: Editors [...]

16 - Topic: Education (Organization of American States - OAS)

North America; South America; Latin America; Caribbean
This site lists all the information and links that the Organization of American States (OAS) provides in the field of education. For example, its "Department of Human Development, Education, and Employment" aims at supporting the cooperation between the North and South American member states in educational matters. It created the "Inter-American Teacher Educator Network" [...]

17 - Red Iberoamericana de Investigación Sobre Cambio Y Eficacia Escolar (RINACE)

Argentina; Latin America; Spain; Portugal
The "Iberoamerican Network for Research on School Change and Efficiency" RINACE unites national networks with the same focus in Latin America, Portugal and Spain. Its website provides information on RINACE's organisation, on the members of the national networks, on activities, research, three fulltext journals (Revista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en [...]

18 - Actas de la Jornadas Nacionales y Latinoamericanas de Investigadores/as en Formación en Educación

Argentina; Latin America
[As the new website doesn't link the panels separately and one publication is missing, we link to the old version of the website in the web archive.] This website of the Institute for Research in Education at the University of Buenos Aires provides very ample conference proceedings for the joint National and Latin American Conference of "educational researchers-in-training". [...]

19 - Wainerman, Catalina; Di Virgilio, María Mercedes, 2010: El quehacer de la investigación en educación

Argentina; Latin America; Brazil
The book "El quehacer de la investigación en educación" (~ The work of research in education) deals with the research objects, the research methods as well as future developments in the field of educational research in Argentina. In some chapters, comparisons are drawn to Latin America as a whole or to single countries (e.g. Brazil). You can find some more information about [...]

20 - Centro REDES - Centro de Estudios sobre Ciencia, Desarrollo y Educación Superior

Argentina; Latin America; North America; Central America
The "Centre for Studies on Science, Development and Higher Education" (Centro REDES) was founded in 2002 by the nonprofit organisation Grupo REDES. The "National Council for Scientific and Technical Research" (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - CONICET) granted the Centro REDES the status of an associated institution in 2003. The Centro's website [...]

21 - Área Educación - Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) - Sede Argentina

Argentina; Latin America
The Network FLACSO (Latin American Institute for Social Sciences) is an international organisation in research and documentation founded in 1957 by the UNESCO. It has offices in 16 Latin American Countries. Since 1982, the Argentinian office of FLACSO has an area and website for education and educational research. Two programmes are central to this education area: the [...]

22 - Red Latinoamericana de Estudios Teóricos y Epistemológicos en Política Educativa (ReLePe)

Latin America
The Latin American Network for Theoretical and Epistemological Studies on Educational Policy was created in 2011. Its website provides ample resources and information on thematical working groups, workshops, conferences and other events, on publications (including a freely accessible e-book), a newsletter, a thematically sorted publication list with links to many fulltexts, as [...]

23 - Educación Inclusiva (Plataforma del Desarrollo Inclusivo)

Latin America; Central America; Argentina; Brazil; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; Uruguay
This website first provides a general introduction into Inclusive Education in general. Furthermore, you will find links to specific Central and Latin American countries. These sub-sites mainly contain reports about the situation of inclusive education in these countries. The reports were mainly written for the World Bank in 2004. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

24 - Proyecto "La Educación Inclusiva en la Región Mesoamericana"

Central America; Latin America; South America
This website provides an overview of a project (ca. 2007-2016) on the cooperation of the Central American (and partly Ibero-American) countries in the field of inclusive education. You will find a chronology of important events in educational policy as well as important official documents, programmes and more, for example: * Acciones Destacadas del Proyecto (2001-2010) * [...]

25 - Inclusive Education Reports (IBE/UNESCO)

international; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Arab States; Pacific Rim; North America; Caribbean
[This is a copy of the original website as of 16.05.2015. The original website is offline.] This website of the International Bureau of Education (IBE) of the Unesco provides regional (continental) and country specific reports on the status of inclusive education. On the right hand side, you will find further links to websites, publications, events, multimedia and more). [...]

26 - PISA Brasil (Programa Internacional de Avaliação de Estudantes)

Brazil; Latin America; Spain; Portugal
The Brazilian PISA Study is coordinated and conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP). On its website, INEP provides information on PISA in general, Brazilian PISA studies since the year 2000, on the Ibero-American PISA group and its joint report in 2006, the issues of the OECD publication "PISA in focus" in Portuguese, and [...]

27 - Federación Iberoamericana del World Council for Gifted and Talented Children

Latin America; Spain; Portugal
FICOMUNDYT brings together Spanish and Portugueses speaking countries and researchers interested in giftedness. The website offers information on the organisation and a small bibliography of literature in Spanish and Portuguese. FICOMUNDYT also organises the Congreso Iberoamericano de Superdotación, Talento y Creatividad. Unfortunately, their newsletter is only available to [...]

28 - OU - OportUnidad

Europe; Latin America
"The project intends to foster the adoption and pilot of open educational practices (OEP), and open educational resources (OER) in Latin America as a bottom-up approach to develop a common Higher Education Area. (...) The OportUnidad project is co-funded with support by the European Commission under the EuropeAidALFA III Programme." One of the main results is the trilingual [...]

29 - Open Seminar and Exhibition (at the World Open Educational Resources Congress, 21-22 June 2012, UNESCO)

international; Poland; Brazil; United Kingdom; China, People's Republic of; Africa South of the Sahara; Netherlands; Slovenia; Japan; Latin America; Russian Federation; Mauritius
While the World OER Congress invites government officials, the "Open Seminar and Exhibition" , that takes place at the same time, invites NGOs and individual experts and researchers worldwide to discuss the topic. The website offers their presentations as fulltext documents, as well as background information on the presnters. [Source: Editors of Education Worldwide]

30 - Latin America Learning - Open Resources Collection

Latin America; Mexico; Bahamas; Barbados; Guyana; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica; Suriname; Peru; Venezuela; Costa Rica; Argentina; Brazil; Nicaragua; Guatemala; Guatemala; Panama; Bolivia; Colombia; Chile
Latin America Learning was a project of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Michigan State University. You can browse for OER resources and projects by country, region or topic. You will also find information on research activities as well as further news. [Source: Editors of Education Worldwide]

31 - temoa - Open Educational Resources Portal

international; Latin America; Chile; Europe; Spain; United Kingdom; Brazil; United Kingdom; Netherlands
temoa was a project run by the Center for Innovation in Technology and Education (Innov@TE) at the University Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. In July 2015, an article was published about the project. The website offers OER-Resources from institutions worldwide, with a focus on resources from Spain, but also other European countries, not so much Latin American countries. You [...]

32 - Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) - Sede Ecuador

Ecuador; Latin America
The Network FLACSO (Latin American institute for social science) is an international organisation in research and documentation founded in 1957 by UNESCO. IThe homepage of the Ecuadorian office presents abundant information on educational issues: Programs and projects, publications, products, research results, full text information as well as the educational journal "Propuesta [...]

Network of Virtual Libraries of Social Sciences of Latin-America and the Caribbean

Latin America; Caribbean; Argentina; Bolivia; Chile; Brazil; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Ecuador; El Salvador; Guatemala; Haiti; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Puerto Rico; Dominican Republic; Uruguay; Venezuela; Spain; Portugal; United States of America (USA); Germany; Caribbean
The Network of Virtual Libraries of Social Sciences of Latin-America and the Caribbean (CLASCO) has the objectives to promote and to facilitate the access to research results of the member centres of CLASCO. For this purpose, CLASCO has created a virtual library which grants free access to the different contents. CLASCO was founded by the libraries of the members of the [...]

34 - Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) - Education

Latin America; Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Bolivia; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; El Salvador; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Guyana; Jamaica; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Puerto Rico; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Uruguay; Venezuela; France; United States of America (USA); Caribbean
The website of the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) offers extensive link lists to institutions and websites of the primary, secondary and higher education field as well as to language courses and to scholarships. The links are arranged by country or by category.

Latin-American and Caribbean Pedagogic Institute

Cuba; Caribbean; Latin America
The objective of the Latin-American and Caribbean Pedagogic Institute (IPLAC) is the promotion of the professionality and the continuing vocational training of educators in Latin-America and the Caribbean in the field of educational sciences which is pursued by special programs for teachers, professors and directors of education. Furthermore, the institute contributes to the [...]

Latin-American and Caribbean Educators Association

Latin America; Caribbean; Cuba; Argentina; Aruba; Bolivia; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; El Salvador; Haiti; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Puerto Rico; Dominican Republic; Uruguay; Venezuela; United States of America (USA); Netherlands Antilles; Netherlands
The Latin-American and Caribbean Educators Association (AELAC) is a non-profit ONG which unites all pedagogues and institutions of Latin-America and the Caribbean and which is involved in the study and the solutions of the problems of the educational and the cultural sectors of those areas. The objective of the assocation is to define, to preserve and to develop an adequate, [...]

37 - Red Interuniversitaria para el Estudio de las Políticas de Educación en América Latina (RIEPESAL)

Latin America
The RIEPESAL is an institutional network of researchers who do research on higher education policy. Unfortunately, RIEPESAL's website is outdated (last information from about 2011). The website provides information on conferences, publications and some Open Access articles published by RIEPESAL members. RIEPESAL was founded in 2004 and has its headquarter in the Instituto [...]

Latin-American Network of Educational Portals

Latin America; Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Chile; Ecuador; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Dominican Republic; Uruguay; Venezuela; Spain
The Latin-American Network of Educational Portals (RELPE) was founded in August 2004 in an agreement of the ministers of education of 16 Latin-American countries. Those countries constitute RELPE with their respective autonomous, national, public and free portals. The principles of RELPE are that every country maintains its own portal in accordance with the education project [...]

Cervantes Institute

Spain; Latin America
The Cervantes Institute is a public institution which was founded in 1991 by the promotion of Spanish teaching and language and for t he diffusion of Spanish and Latin-American culture. It is located in Madrid, Spain and in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, the birth place of Miguel de Cervantes. The centres of the institute are located in all five continents. The tasks and functions [...]

Latin-American Virtual Campus

Latin America; Chile; Argentina; Mexico; Spain; Portugal
The Latin-American Virtual Campus (CAVILA) is the establishment of a virtual space of higher education with the necessary teacher quality and research, to attain the common use of the scientific-technical asquisitions of each member university.

Network of Latin-American Regional Universities

Latin America; international
The Network for Latin-American Regional Universities (RedUREL) was founded in 1996 with the intention to create an international reference service which, along with the impulse to realize international academic exchange activities, animates the establishment of Latin-American professorships, furthermore the establishment of advanced academic vocational programs in strategic [...]

42 - GIGA-Informationszentrum

Africa; Asia; Latin America; Middle East
The four regional libraries of the GIGA Information Centre collect literature on economic, political and social developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Besides library catalogues the service comprises online bibliographies and internet resources. GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies emerged from the German Overseas Institute (founded in [...]

43 - IESALC Reports on Higher Education

Latin America; Caribbean
The International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean is a regional Unesco-Institution with 33 Member States. By providing a spanish website, having the character of a comprehensive portal, the IESALC aims to reflect, to promote and to coordinate the initiatives and demands of its Member Countries in the field of higher education. Up-to-date [...]

44 - World Wide Colleges and Universities - South America

South America; international; Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Ecuador; Guyana; Suriname; Uruguay; Venezuela; Paraguay; Peru; Latin America
This web site is a resource of the Center for Global Education. The site provides web links to colleges and universities in South America. Along with links to the home language home pages, the site also provides direct links to an English Language Home Page and the Website of the International Relations Office. Through connection to resources like the International Association [...]

45 - Red de Investigadores Sobre Educación Superior (RISEU)

Latin America; Spain
RISEU is a network of researchers on higher education from Latin America and Spain. Its main objective is to support the study of higher education, to constitute a space of academic dialogue, and to develop documentary resources. The website offers links to national research institutions on the same topic, to articles (fulltext), to some statistics, to conferences and [...]

46 - Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) - Sede Argentina

Argentina; Latin America
The Network FLACSO (Latin American institute for social science) is an international organisation in research and documentation founded in 1957 by UNESCO. It has offices in 16 Latin American Countries. The homepage of the office in Argentina presents abundant information on educational issues: Programs and projects, publications, products, research results, full text [...]

47 - Centro de Documentación Especializado en Educación de Adultos para América Latina. (CEDEAL)

Latin America; Caribbean
CEDEAL is a documentation centre which focuses on adult education in Latin America and the Caribbean. The homepage provides bibliographic material and full text information in order to support the formation and vocational training of professionals in this area. Access to material about distant learning, programs of alphabetisation and reports of evaluations is given.

48 - America Latina Interconectada Con Europa

Latin America; Europe
This website has been developed in the framework of the ALICE-project. The abbreviation stands for "America Latina Interconectada Con Europa". The European Commission is actively supporting the project and co-funds it with 10 million Euros. The ALICE project was set up in 2003 to develop an IP research network infrastructure within the Latin American region and towards Europe. [...]

49 - Proyecto Regional de Indicadores Educativos (PRIE)

Chile; Latin America
PRIE is a regional project of the Chilean Government in cooperation with Latin American governments and international organisations. Its objective is to develop comparable indicators for education quality and statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean. The homepage provides an overview about the school systems in different countries taking in to account geographic, [...]

New Alexandria

Argentina; Latin America
Nueva Alejandría is an Argentinean website for Spanish speaking educators mostly teachers from the primary and secondary education sector in Latin America. It offers educational resources, materials for curriculum subjects and extracurricular applications; forums for teachers as well as on-line training in Spanish for further education. The website provides information about [...]

Education Forum

Peru; Latin America
Foro Educativo is an organisation of educational professionals in the field of education policy and research. It seeks to help improve the quality and equity of education by developing national and regional programs and initiatives in Peru, in cooperation with the public and private sector. Decentralisation in education policy is another import field of activities. The website [...]

Peruvian Academical Network

Peru; Latin America
Red Académica Peruana (RAAP) is an initiative of different private and public institutions. Its objective is to establish a scientific network in Peru to support investigation and education as well as academic interchange und cooperation. The project is part of a mayor program, Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas (Clara), which aims to build national research and [...]

53 - Revista Iberoamericana de Educación

Latin America
After subscription (free of costs) the current and late articles of this electronic review are available online (htm or pdf-files).

54 - Universia.cl - el portal de los universitarios

Latin America
This portal for university graduates provides access to various information which could be important for these persons: link lists of institutions, departments and institutes, lists of libraries and research institutions, advice for internet facilities and international contacts etc.

55 - Sistema Regional de Información (SIRI)

Latin America; Caribbean
This regional centre of Unesco for Latin America and the Caribbean has the aim to collect, create and disseminate information about education in the region. Its objective is to assist governments in developing methods and concepts of education indicators - therefore it empowers national statistical offices. The homepage provides links to descriptions of the various projects [...]

56 - Global directory of universities

international; Africa; Asia; North America; Latin America; Europe; Oceania
This is a link list of the universities, arranged according to continents and countries; the entry of the USA also shows the Federal States.

57 - Unión de Universisades de América Latina (UDUAL)

international; Latin America
This organization is concerned with various topics of promotion and coordination of the tertiary institutions in the member states, their quality development, institutional empowerment of the universities, coordination and integration of study programs and research. The web site provides extensive information, documents, statistics, and links to institutions and programs

58 - Asociación Universitaria Iberoamericana de Posgrado (AUIP)

international; Latin America
This organization has as its objectives to promote postgraduate studies and assure the quality of the training of university staff in the member states and, furthermore, to provide information about respective programmes. With the button Información one gets information texts about statutes, activities and objectives of the AUIP. Additionally, there is a list of member [...]

59 - Asociación Iberoamericana de Educación Superior a Distancia (AIESAD)

international; Latin America
This association has as objective the information, coordination and cooperation of distance study institutions in Latin America. The following fields are concerned: research, training of professors, promotion of the use of new technologies in distance study, development of instructional material, promotion of and participation in evaluation, quality assurance and certification [...]

60 - Regiones - Regions - Regiones

international; Latin America
Educational information can be accessed from this web site by firstly clicking the respective country and then activating the link "Education and Research" in the country web site. This provides a list of educational and training institutions and other relevant organisations.

61 - International Education Resources: Americas

international; North America; Central America; Caribbean; Latin America
This link list has 4 sections: North America, Central America, Caribbean and South America. Each section contains various educational institutions of each country which sometimes have a short description added. At the beginning regional institutions from the entire continent are listed.

62 - Oficina Regional de Educación de la UNESCO para América Latina y el Caribe (OREALC)

Latin America; Caribbean
The Regional Office of Unesco for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago de Chile provides on its homepage information about the following issues: programs and projects, activities and events, regional education statistics, publications and about the services of the Documentation Centre (data base, bibliographies). The menu point "laboratorio" offers texts about research [...]

63 - EduRed. Nuevos recursos para la enseñanza.

Latin America
This education server opens the access to teaching aids and curricular materials which are available on-line.

64 - Modernización de la Formación Profesional en América Latina y el Caribe

Latin America; Caribbean
This is a text about the current state of vocational education in Latin America and the Caribbean and the future challenges for its modernization. Using the arrow at the end of each page, one can come to information about special projects in several countries of the region.

Escuela Nueva. Foundation Volvamos a la Gente

Latin America; Colombia; Guatemala
The foundation Escuela Nueva is an innovation in the area of basic primary education, especially in rural communities, focusing on community education, co-operative, active and participatory education, a strong connection to the community and a flexible transition of pupils to higher levels. The website provides information about the objectives of the organization and their [...]

66 - Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) : Education

Latin America; Caribbean
The Bank was established in December of 1959 to help accelerate economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean; this is done by mobilizing resources for the region (using own capital, fund raising, supplementing private investment). The education website provides information about the work and projects of the Bank.

67 - Unidad der Desarollo Social y Educación

Latin America; Caribbean; North America
This unity of OAS is responsible for the areas of education, social development, labour market and employment policies and culture. It coordinates the programs of the member countries and helps to formulate the respective policies. The URL which provides the current working plan in English language is: http://www.oas.org/udse/ ingles2004/ frameset. html

68 - Programa de Promoción de la Reforma Educativa en América Latina y el Caribe (PREAL)

Latin America; Caribbean
PREAL seeks to help improve the quality and equity of education in Latin America and the Caribbean by promoting better education policy. Its objectives are: 1) build public and private sector support for educational reform; 2) strengthen public and private sector organizations working for educational improvement; and 3) identify and disseminate best education policies and [...]

69 - Inter American Research and Documentation Centre on Vocational Training (Cinterfor/ILO)

South America; Central America; Caribbean; Latin America; international
This website provides information texts of various kinds about problems of vocational training in the two Americas. Thematic areas are: labour competencies; quality management; youth, training and employment; women, training and work; trade unions and training. Publications of CINTERFOR and related links are also presented.

70 - Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU)

Spain; Latin America; United States of America (USA); Puerto Rico; Caribbean
Today (stand: March 2012), the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) represents more than 300 colleges and universities committed to Hispanic higher education success in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Latin America and Spain. Its mission is to promote the development of member colleges and universities and to improve access to and the quality of post-secondary [...]

71 - Education for All in the Americas: Regional Framework of Action.

Latin America; Caribbean
This URL provides the full text of the regional framework for action adopted by the Regional Conference on Education for All adopted by the Regional Meeting on Education for All in the Americas, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 10-12 February 2000. The leading principles, areas of action and targets are presented.

72 - Repertorio de Servicios Iberoamericanos de Documentación e Información Educativas

Latin America; Caribbean
The homepage provides access to the Ibero-American information and documentation service institutions in the education area via indexes of countries, the names of libraries and information centres, subjects and databases.

73 - Centro Interuniversitario de Desarrollo (CINDA)

Latin America; Europe
The Centre is an international academic institution which unites important universities in Latin America and Europe; its mission is to work with problems of the economic and social development of Latin America. The website provides texts about the tasks of CINDA, its program (promotion of science and technology), publications and seminars.

74 - Universidades de América Latina

Latin America
The 829 links (update march 2004) of all Latin American universities are arranged alphabetically according to the countries.

75 - Education in Latin America

Latin America; Caribbean
This homepage is arranged in four categories: distance education, higher education, language programs, primary and secondary education. Within these categories the links to the listed educational institutions are arranged according to the countries.

76 - Primary and secondary education in Latin America

Latin America; Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Ecuador; El Salvador; Guatemala; Guyana; Colombia; Mexico; Peru; Venezuela
The homepage first presents links to international resources of literature, institutions, media, networks, reference books and other directories. Then, arranged according to the countries, links are provided to individual schools and other school-related institutions as well as to international resources which are relevant for schooling.

77 - Language Programs in Latin America

Latin America; Argentina; Brazil; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Guatemala; Mexico; Nicaragua; Bolivia; Peru; Dominican Republic; Venezuela
This website contains links to resources for those interested in studying Latin American languages abroad. It is arranged into country resources (alphabetically arranged), links to the individual Latin American languages, directories of language schools and international resources in the field of language studies.

78 - Higher Education in Latin America

Latin America; Caribbean; Virgin Islands of the United States; Argentina; Barbados; Belize; Bolivia; Brazil; Chile; Costa Rica; Dominican Republic; El Salvador; Ecuador; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Guyana; Honduras; Jamaica; Colombia; Cuba; Martinique; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Puerto Rico; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Uruguay; Venezuela; United States of America (USA); France
This list provides, first, links to the higher education institutions in the countries (alphabetically arranged), followed by links to international higher education resources, international educational exchanges and to information about scholarships and grants.

79 - Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE)

international; Canada; United States of America (USA); Latin America; Caribbean
As the only university organization that spans the entire continent of the Americas, the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE) is engaged in promoting establishment of academic collaboration between its member universities by fostering mutual support and exchange of information and aims to contribute by this to the sustainable development of the quality of [...]

80 - Observatorio de le Educación Iberoamericana

Latin America; Spain
This network is an information system of the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) which provides information texts about the education systems of the member states prepared by the education ministries. The homepage contains texts describing this project and links to the texts about the respective countries [these have been entered in this database] and to the education [...]

81 - Education in Latin America

Latin America
The links are structured in 4 separate lists: distance study (institutions, on-line courses, journals and writings, other resources), higher education, international co-operation, scholarships), language programs (studying Latin American languages in the countries) and primary and secondary education (school inventories and children's literature). The lists are structured [...]

82 - Consejo de Educación de Adultos de América Latina (CEAAL)

Latin America; Caribbean
CEAAL is a federation of 210 adult education NGOs in all Latin American states. It promotes the "educación popular" by training of adult educators. Currently there are 6 thematic networks, namely for women's education, education of local leaders, education for peace and human rights, environmental education, communication and education. The homepage leads to full texts of [...]

83 - Latin American Council of Social Sciences / Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)

Latin America
Founded in 1967, the network CLACSO now counts more than 580 participating institutes, centres and associations in more than 45 countries doing social science research on and in Latin America. Among the members and research subjects, you will also find educational ones. CLACSO moreover runs a network of virtual libraries and repositories with an overall search over more than [...]

84 - Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI)

Caribbean; Latin America; Spain; Portugal
OEI is an international organization of the Ibero-American countries which promotes the co-operation in the fields of education, science and culture and has a "governmental" character. Its aim is to advance an integrated development of the region in these matters. The website offers (see "que es la OEI?") information about the organizational structure, implemented activities [...]

85 - Centro de Recursos Documentales e Informáticos (CREDI)

Caribbean; Latin America; Spain; Portugal
The institution is the information and documentation centre of OEI (see there), responsible for educational documentation in the Ibero-American countries. The website provides access to all information services: searching in the CREDI databases, selective dissemination of information, catalogue of new acquisitions of journals and monographs in the CREDI library, indexes of [...]

86 - Centro de Cooperación Regional para la Educación de los Adultos en América Latina y el Caribe (CREFAL)

Caribbean; Latin America; Central America
Unfortunately there is no text describing the mission of the Centre. The main task seems to be the training of adult education teachers - the respective courses and seminars are presented. There are further links to discussion forums, conferences and about the library and documentation centre and a link list of related web-sites.

87 - Red Latinoamericana de información y Documentación en Educación (REDUC)

Caribbean; Latin America
REDUC is a network representing the regional centre for educational information and documentation in the Latin American countries which collects and disseminates literature and research documents about education in the region. It consists of 22 centres in 19 countries. The site contains a description of the tasks and work of REDUC and information about publications, training [...]

88 - Educación y formacion por pais

Latin America; Spain
Link list in alphabetical order of the countries.

89 - Instituto Latinomericano de la Comunicación Educativa

Latin America
The Latin American Institute for Educational Communication was established in 1956. It is a regional institution for the respective Unesco Member States. The institute is expected to render a contribution towards an improvement of education by applying the new information and communication technologies. On the website the user can find links to the school net, to educational [...]