Repensar la calidad en la educación superior en el nuevo milenio

Abstract

This article describes some of the policies underlying evaluation processes in the latest government administration, concluding that public universities participated in a learning process that may improve their planning processes, with special emphasis on performance indicators. The author also indicates the need to follow up these changes to observe whether lessons learned will translate into a new culture of planning and evaluation or merely increase capacity to adapt to education policies. The need for a significant leap forward in the concept of quality is proposed. Many current quality evaluation practices face obsolescence, given the unregulated creation of new schools, an increase in demand for distance learning, the transformation forced on post-secondary educational institutes by aging of their faculty and the ever-intensifying increase in information and communication technology.