Moving Mexico's Higher Education System Forward -- Potential and Challenges

Abstract

While openly acknowledging the urgent need to improve the overall performance of the higher education system (HES) and serve the student population more completely, the Government of Mexico (GOM) has nonetheless failed to follow through on promised reforms. The GOM needs to implement a comprehensive and wide-ranging program of reforms to a number of key elements of the Mexican HES to enable graduates to compete more favorably for employment in the Mexican and global labor markets. These proposed reforms would directly address the most pressing problems facing the Mexican HES by increasing university capacity (seats), establishing a centralized governing body, implementing mandatory standardized entrance examinations, improving the professionalism of university faculty, and increasing GOM efforts toward education research.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 28, 2011
Accession Number
ADA555397

Entities

People

  • W. J. Nault

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Education
  • Employment
  • European Union
  • Governments
  • Labor
  • Labor Markets
  • Latin America
  • Manufacturing
  • Military Operations
  • Public Policy
  • Schools
  • Standards
  • Statistics
  • Students
  • United States
  • Universities
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Systems Analysis and Design