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Lee Mackenzie – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
This article draws on existing research, including publicly available data, to identify changes in Colombian HE which have led to its progressive massification and neoliberalisation. These include the introduction of standardised testing; endogenous and exogenous privatisation (Ball and Youdell, 2007); the expansion of the country's non-income…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Sustainable Development
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Gonzalez-Campo, Carlos Hernan; Murillo-Vargas, Guillermo; Garcia Solarte, Monica – International Journal of Educational Management, 2021
Purpose: A mission statement is the central axis of any organization and the cornerstone of its strategic planning. Universities have implemented this tool to define, among other things, its identity; however, the legal nature and functions of the mission statement have not been determined. In this article, the authors analyze the differences in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Institutional Mission, Position Papers
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Saavedra, Anna Rosefsky; Saavedra, Juan Esteban – Economics of Education Review, 2011
We investigate how much value college enrollment adds to students' critical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills, and the role college inputs play in developing these competencies, using data from a 2009 collegiate assessment pilot study in Colombia. Relative to observationally similar first year students, students in their final…
Descriptors: Enrollment, College Students, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving