Challenges for higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean

Higher Education has an important role in overcoming the scientific and technological gaps with more developed countries; national, regional and institutional policies should be aimed at achieving a transformation of the relationship models between academic research groups and users of knowledge; globalisation and the emergence of societies deserve attention from specialists in various disciplines, which leads us to analyse its impact on current and future higher education, due to the dynamics of the events of globalisation, which also allow us to value education. This paper discusses the role of higher education in the face of the social challenges of Latin America and the Caribbean, the main aspects of which are the new challenges facing higher education in Latin America, and the unresolved problems of modernity that lead us to address other approaches, due to the dynamics of the events of globalisation.