Impacto de la política de calidad de la educación superior

Un estudio de caso

Abstract

In this work, strategies to improve the Educational Quality of the Educational National Program for High Education and it’s impact in Dentistry were analyzed (strategic objective). Some characteristics of the general Mexican Educational System were reviewed, in order to establish the ones that belong to Dentistry. Actions derived from Quality Policy, were identified as well, such as teaching staff capacitating, improvements in salaries, teaching staffs consolidation, getting extraordinary resources, evaluation and accreditation. Capacitating has been present without any institutional programming; it causes a limited impact in Educational Quality related with improvements in salaries, since they only benefit to a minimal percentage of teachers: those who have a full time job and a definitive contract. The main problem of Academic staffs, is that exigencies teachers are submitted, have nothing to do with teaching tasks. Conditioning to obtain an extra financial support besides having the accreditation, disadvantages those institutions that don’t accomplish the established requirements, creating important inequalities between Dentistry IES (High Educational Institutions). Evaluation criteria of academicals programs disadvantages this discipline, because service actions to the population, are not included in those programs. Most politics to improve quality in education, have a limited impact in it. In this work, some educational politics of the present government were analyzed; those politics are defined in the Educational National Program for the High Education and it’s impact in the dentistry career. Some characteristics of the Mexican educational system were in general reviewed in order to establish the ones of the dentistry discipline. Actions derived from quality politics were identified such as: evaluation and teaching staff capacitating; improvements of salaries throw the stimulus and fellowship system; and the consolidation of the teaching staff. It was analyzed the way these actions will modify the teaching process in dentistry in Mexico. KEY WORDS: evaluation, quality, policy teaching, accreditation.