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The UNESCO Office for Latin America and the Caribbean is calling on Venezuelan nationals in Chile, who are in one of the following educational situations, to complete a key for the study “Mapping policies to ensure the right to higher education for Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean.”

UNESCO invites Venezuelans who are about to apply to higher education in the country, currently enrolled in a Chilean university at any stage of their academic career, or who have graduated in the last two years, to answer the questions in this survey, which will be available until Friday, 13th September 2024.

The is part of a regional study launched in June 2024 by the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO IESALC). Its aim is to facilitate access to higher education for Venezuelan refugees and migrants.
 

The project, which spans seven countries (Colombia, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay, and Brazil), seeks to contribute to improving the educational policies and practices that ensure the effective integration of Venezuelan migrants and refugees into their new communities, through the recognition of their prior qualifications and the creation of opportunities for them to contribute meaningfully to their host societies.

In Chile, the research will focus on providing information about the country’s migration context, exploring and analysing national policies that affect this mobile population’s access to higher education, and will include criteria such as accessibility, recognition of qualifications, financial support, and integration programmes. Additionally, it will assess the effectiveness of these policies in integrating refugees and migrants into the higher education system. For this, their experiences will be collected and documented, and recommendations will be proposed to improve access to and the quality of higher education for this population.

The research will include interviews with officials from the Chilean Ministry of Education, representatives of higher education institutions, and civil society organisations. To gather information about the experiences of Venezuelans in this educational mobility situation within Chilean higher education, two focus groups will be conducted, and this will be distributed through organisations associated with UNESCO Santiago.