LIV General Assembly of SICEVAES

San Pablo de Heredia, Costa Rica, April 19, 2023

On April 19 and 20, the 54th General Assembly of the Central American System for the Evaluation and Harmonization of Higher Education -SICEVAES- will take place, with the aim of promoting action plans with practical solutions to the problems, weaknesses and deficiencies identified in the processes of self-evaluation and external evaluation, of the universities that make up the Central American University Confederation.

Being the SICEVAES, the system that promotes the culture of quality, evaluation and accountability to society in the member universities, using the evaluation and accreditation as a change and modernization management strategy for the improvement of the universities of the region. 

The opening of the 54th General Assembly was attended by Carlos Alvarado Cerezo, Secretary General of CSUCA, who pointed out ?From our work as the Central American University Confederation, our mission is framed in promoting development through cooperation to project ourselves in society, being education one of the most important pillars, through the involvement of authorities, teachers, researchers and accreditation agencies?

Under the leadership of Francisco Gonzáles, Rector of the National University of Costa Rica -UNA- and President of CSUCA, in the framework of the 50th anniversary of the UNA he mentioned ?It is a pleasure to host this important work session, we do it too in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the CSUCA, which has allowed us as member universities to contribute and strengthen education as a central mechanism of coexistence, but also of hope for our region?.

While Gabriela Valverde, representing Felipe Alpízar, Vice Chancellor for Teaching at the University of Costa Rica -UCR- and President of SICEVAES mentioned ?We have achieved very valuable achievements from SICEVAES, but we must continue working for the development of our universities, which work for the benefit of the communities of our countries?

A fundamental part of the work carried out at SICEVAES is the development of innovative proposals in education, which is why a series of exhibitions were held ?The innovation of university education, from the international and European vision and experience? by Ernest Pons from the University of Barcelona, Spain, ?The innovation of teaching-learning, the vision and the experience of the University of Costa Rica? by Luisa Villanueva Salazar of the University Teaching Department of the Teacher Training School of the University of Costa Rica -UCR- and ?The evaluation and accreditation of the quality of higher education, the experience and perspectives of Central America?, by Rutilia Calderón of Central American Accreditation Council -CCA-.

It is important to mention that this space motivates the members of SICEVAES to develop work by permanent commissions, according to the strategic objectives of program 3 of the Fifth Plan for the Regional Integration of Higher Education in Central America and the Dominican Republic -PIRESC V-, who At the same time, they will present the report on the progress made in the last semester. Likewise, the report of the CSUCA General Secretariat will be presented and, at the same time, it will lead to the election of the members of the SICEVAES Technical Commission, representing the University of San Carlos de Guatemala -USAC- and the Technical University of Panama - UTP-.