Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The Current Status of the Tertiary Education System in Colombia
  • The Students
  • The Providers
  • System Governance and Management
  • Quality Assurance
  • Academic Personnel
  • Enrollment: Unprecedented Expansion in the mid 1990s
  • Disciplines: Under-Investment in Technical Education
  • Programs: Biased Towards Undergraduate
  • A Struggling Science and Technology Sector
  • A Nascent Internationalization of Colombian Tertiary Education
  • 2. Economic Issues and Perspectives
  • Increasing External Efficiency
  • A Segmented Market for Tertiary Education
  • Funding a Selective and Efficient Public Sector
  • Filling the Vacancies in the Private Sector
  • Inadequate Student Aid
  • 3. Strategies and Recommendations for Tertiary Education in Colombia
  • Annex I. The Colombian Tertiary Education System: Problems and Challenges
  • Annex II. Institutional Analysis of the Tertiary Education Sector
  • Annex III. Quality Assurance in Colombia
  • Annex IV. Science and Technology: Status and Perspective
  • Annex V. Colombian Higher Education in the Global Market
  • Annex VI. Economic Perspectives of Tertiary Education
  • Annex VII. Reforming Student Financial Aid: Issues and Alternatives.