Abstract
The aim to analyze the key world and regional trends of higher education - according to the proposals from the World Conferences of Higher Education of UNESCO of 1998 and of 2009 and the consideration of it as a common good - is to help to promote the necessary transformations of his principal trends. Such as: the quantitative expansion; an increasing privatization; the institutional diversification; his internationalization; and the growth of the restrictions in the public financing.
Keywords
Higher Education; Trends; Accreditation; Globalization; Rankings; Financing; Internationalization