Constitutional Prospects for the Implementation of Funding and Governance Reforms in Latin American Higher Education

Autor/in	Bernasconi, Andres
Titel	Constitutional Prospects for the Implementation of Funding and Governance Reforms in Latin American Higher Education
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 22 (2007) 5, S.509-529 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Universities; Educational Change; Tuition; Governance; Educational Finance; Public Colleges; Administration; Constitutional Law; Educational Policy; Change Strategies; Finance Reform; Access to Education; Private Sector; Feasibility Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; University; Universität; Bildungsreform; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Bildungsfonds; Verwaltung; Staatsrecht; Politics of education; Lösungsstrategie; Financial reform; Finanzreform; Access; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Privater Sektor
Abstract	The rationale for comprehensive reform of Latin American higher education crystallized in the mid-1990s in policy documents published by the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. This "Washington consensus" of the multilateral banks advocated, among other measures, greater reliance on private sources of funding, increased accountability, and a more effective management and governance structure for public universities in the region. A decade later, these prescriptions not only remain current, but have been somewhat bolstered by policy developments consistent with them in Europe, Asia and Australia. This article compares this reform agenda for funding and governance with the norms on higher education finance and control written in the current constitutions of the Latin American nations. Its purpose is to assess, from a juridical point of view, the viability of the policy prescriptions of that reform agenda for higher education. Major constitutional obstacles to cost recovery via tuition fees are provisions establishing the right to a free higher education in the public sector, while as to the matter of governance, in many countries in the region, the government is not constitutionally authorized to modify by mandate the governance structure of universities, which can only be defined by the institutions themselves. (Contains 1 table and 13 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10