Moving Mexico's Higher Education System Forward -- Potential and Challenges

摘要

While openly acknowledging the urgent need to improve the overall performance of the higher education system (HES) and serve the student population more completely, the Government of Mexico (GOM) has nonetheless failed to follow through on promised reforms. The GOM needs to implement a comprehensive and wide-ranging program of reforms to a number of key elements of the Mexican HES to enable graduates to compete more favorably for employment in the Mexican and global labor markets. These proposed reforms would directly address the most pressing problems facing the Mexican HES by increasing university capacity (seats), establishing a centralized governing body, implementing mandatory standardized entrance examinations, improving the professionalism of university faculty, and increasing GOM efforts toward education research.