Abstract

FERNANDEZ DARRAZ, Enrique. PUBLIC POLICY, MARKET AND INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY: THE COMPLEXITY OF CLASSIFYING HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS. THE CHILEAN CASE. Innovar [online]. 2018, vol.28, n.67, pp.147-158. ISSN 0121-5051.  https://doi.org/10.15446/innovar.v28n67.68620.

This paper studies the difficulties of public policy in the promotion of diversity in higher education systems. Classifications are considered as one of the tools for stimulating such diversity. However, the construction of classifications should take into account a set of theoretical and empirical complexities, as well as context-based aspects that influence their effects; especially the emergence of higher education markets and rankings. This work formulates some hypotheses that allow going further in the study of the relationship between public policy and systems diversity. For this, we reviewed theoretical elements around classifications, the market of higher education and previous classification experiences in Chile. Particularly, we study the classification adopted by the Ministry of Education of Chile in 2012 and its potential effects in the long term.

Clasificación JEL: I21, I23, I28

Keywords : Higher education; diversity; classification; ranking; public policy.

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