The Peruvian university has been abandoned. The university students and multiplication occurring in recent decades is a phenomenon that happens without a plan and no resources. This overcrowding is more responsive to the political patronage in the case of state institutions and the profit motive of some unscrupulous employers in the case of the private, the market demands and / or national needs. Most students are going to career cheap "chalk and blackboard" where the market is saturated in the short and medium term, at the same public investment in basic research and applied basic agent which is the university, has decreased 70% in the last 35 years.
What is academic in this wasteland? Some teachers who have islands of excellence despite adversity and some universities an exception can still keep the name as such. In this concert, the university is no longer a public space for discussion of ideas, knowledge production and especially critical thinking on the problems of Peru. The trend is thus to become a field ready for the assault and privatization, which calls cliques of poor teachers prepared to thrive in poverty in the state universities, radical groups that insist on the violence and intimidation of old and owners
insolent students who cheat and take and fire teachers and principals at will.
The output for this situation is to restore the university as a public institution, regardless of whether their promoters are government or private. Public that it is an institution that provides services such as vocational education, research and social outreach. Public, too, because it should be and in most of our republican life has been an institution meeting between students and academics from different backgrounds to exchange views on the progress of knowledge and the situation in Peru and the world. Public also because in their opinion should be formed cloisters about what belongs to everyone, be it city, region, country and nation. Public, finally, because it is run by the university community and it can access, via the free in the case of national or pension credit and performed over private ones, all with the necessary capacity.
The university is a vital institution and is in an emergency. It therefore deserves the attention of the country and especially the government. In this sense, in the last four years been discussing a new university law in Congress that aims to address the problems background of this institution, both in state and private alternatives. However, many forces now have the existing disorder, constantly conspire to not give any laws and can continue to enjoy existing institutional insecurity.
There is a need at this juncture that the subject election is debated. No country has achieved development without a major investment and ordered the production of knowledge and training. But this must be agreed and not back to what the market development demand and the needs of the population
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