Accreditation proposals ‘risk mass university closures’
Furthermore, they “would gravely affect the higher education system, limiting its growth, development and diversity”.
Only 16 universities meet or surpass the basic indicators proposed and could therefore gain accreditation. Another 40 do not have 30% of their postgraduate offer accredited, as the new guidelines require.
These are the main conclusions of a new study of CNA’s proposed guidelines, carried out by the think-tank
Acción Educar.
The study also maintains that the new indicators, published in October, are too ambitious and ignore the diversity and trajectory of higher education institutions, including internal factors such as student profile and institutional aims, as well as external ones such as the COVID pandemic and Chile’s economic difficulties.