Abstract

CASANOVA CARDIEL, Hugo  and  LOPEZ GARCIA, Juan Carlos. Educación superior en México: los límites del neoliberalismo (2000-2010). Linhas Críticas [online]. 2013, vol.19, n.38, pp.109-128. ISSN 1981-0431.

This paper provides an overview of higher education in Mexico during the first decade of the century. The starting point is that the dominant economic model defined thirty years ago (neoliberalism) has reached a limit, in which the results are clearly insufficient and undesirable. Therefore, in this paper we describe the hegemony of neoliberalism in social life and, above all, privatization and the emergence of market mechanisms in higher education. Under this scenario, both students, academics and institutions were significantly affected by a number of decisions based on economic reasoning rather than social and educational principles. In this sense, evaluation, and also the provision of budgets, became factors that determined the substantive field of higher education in Mexico. The idea of limits suggests, however, that there is an opportunity to build an alternative policy framework for higher education.

Keywords : Higher Education; Neoliberalism; Latin American Higher Education; Evaluation.

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