In thisIssuewe present firstly the answers given so far by Latin America to the challenge of Quality Assurance, with an eye to the perspective involved in a possible forthcoming transition toa secondgeneration of QA programs. We then present a “sub-regional” spinoff effect of the AHELO project, involving higher education institutions of Japan and Indonesia, willing to test, with an appropriate tool, the achieved learning outcomes of their students of mechanical engineering (master level). Finally, we present three articles from three African countries – Morocco, Ethiopia, and Tanzania – which deal with different facets of the complex challenge of the relationship between higher education and job market, here inflected in terms of job access, graduates’ wages, employability and actual employment after a competence-based learning path. The last article in thisIssue,focused on a specific aspect of the above landscape of answers to major challenges, investigates the relationship between algebraic competences with emotional intelligence. Published online : 30 November 2017

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社论：区域性应对高等教育全球挑战的方式

在本文中，Issuewe首先介绍了拉丁美洲迄今为止对质量保证挑战的答案，并着眼于可能即将过渡到第二代质量保证计划的观点。然后，我们介绍了AHELO项目的“次区域”附带效应，其中包括日本和印度尼西亚的高等教育机构，他们愿意使用适当的工具来测试其机械工程专业学生（硕士水平）的学习成果。最后，我们介绍了来自三个非洲国家（摩洛哥，埃塞俄比亚和坦桑尼亚）的三篇文章，涉及高等教育与就业市场之间关系复杂挑战的不同方面，在这里，这些方面在工作机会，毕业生工资，就业能力方面受到影响和基于能力的学习路径的实际就业。本期中的最后一篇文章着眼于上述对主要挑战的答案的一个特定方面，研究了代数能力与情商之间的关系。在线发布：2017年11月30日