Higher education in Mexico: the limits of neoliberalism (2000-2010)

• Autor(a) principal: Casanova Cardiel, Hugo
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: López García, Juan Carlos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Linhas Críticas (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/linhascriticas/article/view/4089
• topic: Educação superior; Neoliberalismo; Educação superior latinoamericana; Avaliação; Educación superior; Neoliberalismo; Educación superior latinoamericana.; Evaluación; Higher education; Neoliberalism; Latin American higher educaction; Evaluation

This paper provides an overview of higher education in Mexico during the first decade of the century. The starting point is that the dominant economic model defined thirty years ago (neoliberalism) has reached a limit, in which the results are clearly insufficient and undesirable. Therefore, in this paper we describe the hegemony of neoliberalism in social life and, above all, privatization and the emergence of market mechanisms in higher education. Under this scenario, both students, academics and institutions were significantly affected by a number of decisions based on economic reasoning rather than social and educational principles. In this sense, evaluation, and also the provision of budgets, became factors that determined the substantive field of higher education in Mexico. The idea of limits suggests, however, that there is an opportunity to build an alternative policy framework for higher education.