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unrealized in Latin America (Lauritz B Holm – Nielsen, Kristian Thorn,
Jose Joaquin Brunner, and Jorge Balán).
The quality and relevance of human capital and knowledge generated by
higher education institutions is critical to Latin America’s social and
economic development. while high-income countries are raising the
stakes, Latin America is still dealing with l ongstanding problems, such as
underdeveloped curricula, lack of teaching materials, underqualified
faculty and labor market imbalances.
However, In Nubia Ruiz Ayala´s book “Development of Potentialities and
Competitions”(2001) she states: “The e ffective educational system in most
of Latin American countries during the last fifty years is not only a good
system but also the product of a mestizo culture, of countries with valuable
natural and human resources whose political and economic characteri stics
locate them to hardships in the adolescent of the development but not in the
not existence of the progress, the growth or the scientific, technological ,
and social innovation 1 ”.
On the other hand, It is relevant to point out that in most of Lat in
American Countries education seems not to be according to this changing
1 “D esa rr o llo de p ot en cialidades y comp et en cias” : “E l sist ema ed u cativo vigen t e en la ma yo ría de los
p aíses latino americanos durante los ú ltimos cincuen ta años no solo es un buen sistema, sino también el
p rod u cto de una cultura mest iza, de países c on va li osos recursos natura les y humanos, cuyas
características políticas y ec on ómicas los sitúan a pen as en la ad o lesc en cia del d esa rr o llo p er o no en la
inexist en cia d el prog r es o el crecimi en to o la innovaci ón cien tífica, tecnológica y soci al”.
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