Dichos y decires del encuentro «las universidades latinoamericanas frente a los rankings: impactos, alcances y límites» encuentro de rectores y especialistas

The meeting was convened in order to open a space for dialogue and debate on international rankings of universities. Throughout the work of the meeting, university presidents, ranking´s editors and academic specialists presented various analysis views and perspectives on the subject. The event, we assert, amply fulfilled its original purpose, and provides, in its Final Declaration, a document that has been invaluable in diversity relevance, an extended synthesis and a new roadmap to better understand the issues of the “quality university” in their epistemological, educational, social and ethical variables, since, as will highlight the Rector of the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), in his inaugural speech: “In the formal world, gentlemen, indicators and scores put us away, but in the real world we approach the problems. Because the problems are inevitably global