Ejes para la elaboración de una política para la educación superior.

Abstract

This document is based on the following premise: higher education is essential for the country's development. The introduction therefore reviews the policies adopted as of the mid 1990s to date that form the framework for future progress. The paper then goes on to address the issues on which the authors intend to focus the discussion to design a higher education policy for the next administration. Questions are proponed for each subject with regard to which policy guidelines should be defined: the massive spread of higher education as a result -on the one hand- of the huge increase in coverage of secondary education in recent decades and -on the other- the response in the supply of higher education institutions; the amount and distribution of state contributions, the way the system is regulated, and problems regarding quality. Lastly, the paper addresses the need to modernize universities that are part of the Council of University Presidents in four areas: institutional framework, management, curriculum and financing models.