Abstract

STUBRIN, Adolfo. Between Uniformity and Atomization: A Contribution Concerning the Impacts of Quality Assurance on Institutions and University Programs in Latin America. Rev. iberoam. cienc. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2018, vol.13, n.37, pp.85-94. ISSN 1850-0013.

Throughout this article, the effects of the wide and extensive activities that evaluation and certification bodies have carried out regarding the institutions and university graduate and postgraduate degrees are considered. In particular, the analysis and discussion stem from the following place in common: the participation in evaluation processes governed by quality standards is, on one hand, useful to control in the case of legal or ethical infringements to the public system of universities and degrees. However, on the other, it conspires, as is frequently stated, against the capacity of the educational parties to differentiate and innovate and ties them to regulation that, in a short time, proves intellectually impoverishing and conservative in its practices. Firstly, a conceptual model of a national university system is described. Upon this foundation, the effect of the adoption of quality assurance mechanisms is analyzed. Then some risky consequences of the evaluation and certification of the quality of universities are pointed out, and options to control said risks are reviewed. The analysis ends with some arguments about the issues addressed, as a conclusion

Keywords : Evaluations; Universities; Latin America; University quality.

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