El Manual Invisible: Tres décadas de políticas de educación superior en Chile (1980-2010).

Abstract

Chilean higher education has experienced vast, and in many ways groundbreaking, changes since 1980. Certain policy developments have been subject to various studies, but the overarching principles and underlying assumptions have remained less explored. The same applies to transitional changes in state approaches to sector-specific regulation that, once established, would remain relatively stable. Through content analysis of policy statements over three decades, this study critically reviews past accounts of the evolution of policy, proposing a new reading of the steps involved in organizing policy settings and the general criteria underpinning these. Beyond allowing a better understanding of the transformation of higher education in Chile, the article concludes with some suggestions around the growing difficulties faced in forming sectoral policy.

Regional inequalities among state universities in Chile: Perspectives on centralization and neoliberal development

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Situation of the offer Doctorate in Education Programs in Chile

“…A turning point in the current higher education system in Chile dates back to the 1980 reform, which transformed the existing institutions at all levels (internal organization, financing structure, regulatory system, among others), allowing the consolidation of a system based on private initiative to the detriment of the system based on public institutions (Salazar & Leihy, 2013).…”

Cambios del neoliberalismo en la educación superior chilena: el caso de la política de aseguramiento de la calidad

“…incremental (Salazar y Leihy, 2013). Los trabajos sobre la concepción y la implementación de las acreditaciones muestran efectivamente que la expansión de la política de aseguramiento de la calidad ha dado lugar a un fenómeno de "sedimentación" (Dávila y Maillet, 2021;Duque, 2021).…”