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Special Report - Education 2011 (ISSN 17414474)
Some progress, but many challenges remain
Although Latin American governments have taken huge steps towards making education accessible to a larger segment of the population and some significant advances have been made, these seem to be directly related to the so-called formative years, mainly pre-school and elementary education. While all Latin American governments agree on the crucial importance of promoting top-notch university education in the region, a unifying public policy to ensure the maintenance of some sort of regional standard is still lacking. Furthermore, some countries also lack a mechanism to ensure university education within the country doesn’t vary from one university to another; or the campus of one university in the capital city with the education imparted in the same university’s campus in a remote province. Thus, it appears that higher education is a field where progressive rhetoric and political militancy collide head-on with a traditionalist conservative system adverse to reform and change.
