Ampliando la mirada. Hacia un nuevo enfoque para la regulación de la oferta de carreras.

Abstract

Regulating the supply of degrees offered by Universities in the process of accreditation should be no different from the one for higher education as a whole. In the selfregulation process tha each institution needs to have in place as well as in the regulation exercised by external agencies, new criteria and approaches need to be included: a) to see to it that the overall supply of degrees offered maintain an adequate level of quality and appropriateness, not only in terms of creating new programs; b) to further develop
current market approaches by including the views of all the stakeholders in the system, ensuring minimum levels of public information on the available supply c) to supplement current criteria by changing the focus of analysis from university degrees to academic projects that are part of their
respective institutional frameworks, on the one hand and, on the other hand, by changing the perspective of a "career market" to a society-based outlook so as to include all social actors and the major issues for the country; d) to address the new challenges faced by higher education which imply making the university system a global one, bringing in information technology systems and moving toward lifelong education methods.