This paper presents analysis related to some key academic aspects in the Universidad Nacional de Colombia's Engineering Faculty on the Bogota campus. The paper has focused on three academic stages: admission, students' academic performance throughout their studies (curriculum) and our students' results in the ECAES exam. Regarding admission, this paper has analysed our intake students' heterogeneity, their behaviour during the different components of the admission exam and analysed the schools providing the most students and which may receive detailed feedback from our faculty. On the topic of curriculum (i.e. overall academic performance during the whole course of studies), this paper has analysed each programme's desertion rates (average and accumulated) and different courses' academic failure rates and has evaluated the effect of socioeconomic conditions on academic performance. This paper has also analysed our students' behaviour during the different components of the ECAES exam. Lastly, this paper has described some of the actions achieved by the faculty's board of directors aimed at addressing some of the academic issues analysed in this document.
El debate sobre la cooperación con los países de renta media (PRM), que gira en torno a lo que se conoce como las trampas de la renta media, ocupa un lugar central en los estudios del desarrollo por su asociación con la nueva geografía de la pobreza. Es preciso acudir a un análisis más sofisticado que el del nivel de renta para entender las necesidades y capacidades concretas en la tarea de enfrentar el desafío de la reducción de la pobreza y el combate a sus causas estructurales. En la actualidad, se abre la oportunidad de avanzar hacia una agenda global renovada (la Agenda 2030) y consolidar la nueva narrativa del desarrollo en tran- sición (DeT) según un enfoque que trate las desigualdades en todas sus dimensiones, afronte la crisis de- mocrática que subyace a la desconfianza hacia las instituciones políticas e identifique los retos de la gobernanza del desarrollo en la generación de los incentivos para la superación de las trampas.
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