Modelo estratégico de internacionalización de las ies ecuatorianas: Caso Universidad De Guayaquil

Abstract

With the last institutional evaluations carried out by the Council for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (Control Body) to which the Universities and Polytechnic Schools of Ecuador, it was possible to standardize behind a series of indicators the quality and trajectory of the institution of higher education; which leads Ecuadorian education to move to the next level, being internationalization the way to consolidate research, teaching and extension, in order not to lose its space in the competitive global market. Discussions on internationalization have revolutionized and have become a new challenge for Ecuadorian universities, so they are forced to adopt certain policies formulated by national and international organizations, inducing them to go through specific evaluations (career) or institutions, framing as an objective to identify and program internationalization processes that universities in neighboring countries have executed, and that according to the procedure of these foreign higher education institutions are related to the Institutional Development Plan (PEDI) and the Institutional Plan of Internationalization, which deserves attention in this research, which for this purpose will be taken as a reference to the impacts on the University of Guayaquil-UG.