Abstract

VERGARA VARELA, Rafael  and  RODRIGUEZ VASQUEZ, María Eugenia. The Talentos academic plan, an institutional response of education for peace. Hallazgos [online]. 2014, vol.11, n.22, pp.403-417. ISSN 1794-3841.  https://doi.org/10.15332/s1794-3841.2014.0022.20.

In an unequal social context like the one of the city of Santiago de Cali, where a big part of Youth develops between unsatisfied needs and high levels of violence, necessary actions are needed to generate opportunities and improvements on contexts in which the individuals develop. In view of this situation, During the term of mayor Jorge Ivan Ospina (2008 - 2010), it was implemented a series of measures having an impact not only on individuals but at the same time in their environments, thus emerging between his public policy the academic grading plan Talents, which had the institutional goal to improve the formation of young people, graduates of Schools in the metropolitan area, looming improved ICFES state tests and the subsequent entry to higher education of a percentage of the treatment population.

Keywords : Public policy; youth; education for peace; human capital; social context.

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