Three objectives guide this paper which is focused on the construction of the Common Space of Higher Education - the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean (CSHE-EUALC): to demonstrate that the imposition of a neoliberal rationale over the higher education systems in the region, via evaluating processes, aims to overcome beliefs and procedures, and to standardize and universalize methods and processes; to highlight the aligning process of higher education institutions from Latin American and Caribbean to the European Higher Education Area; to examine the scope of what may be a new form of incorporation of Latin America and the Caribbean. The central thesis to be discussed considers that the construction of the CSHE-EUALC with the use of means of subordination of the regional universities with use of some parameters and quality indicators are aligned to the interests of core countries of capitalist accumulation, and what is being called knowledge society.
institutional assessment; higher education systems; academic dependency; ECES-UEALC
