Propuesta para la gestión responsable de la educación superior

Abstract

In order to share a minimum language of understanding is an introduction to the concepts of quality, accountability and social responsibility. Then, based on the premise that investing in education is the best deal you can do a country, and to consider that Law 30 of 1992 already complied with the expectations of an era, aspects which are coinciding with the justification of the proposed reform to education, are dealt with some aspects that are worth taking into account on the current proposal of the Government of President Juan Manuel Santos who has consideration made a new law in order to improve coverage and quality to allow Colombian young people become competitive globally and contribute to the development of the country in a tangible way. Various representatives of the Colombian educational system, and in particular higher education, agree in accepting that requires a change in the law 30 to transform the reality of the past 18 years, this gives rise to some questions and suggestions from the reform project that is available for the national discussion and which proposes an intervention to boost the sustainability of the aims expressed in more and better students, young Colombians, making part of the higher education in Colombia to confront a changing world and without borders. This is summarized in the questions: do raised project incorporates the actions necessary and sufficient to achieve the transformation of the results of higher education? responsible management of higher education and it is aware of the effect in Colombian society? To respond, this paper proposed certain complementary actions is considered would lead to the responsible management of the higher education.