Abstract

ERRANDONEA, Gabriel. Evolution of access, permanence and graduation at Udelar. InterCambios [online]. 2023, vol.10, n.1, pp.187-199.  Epub June 01, 2023. ISSN 2301-0118.  https://doi.org/10.29156/inter.10.1.17.

This article aims to adjust the information previously disclosed to the COVID-19 pandemic, on access, permanence and graduation at the Universidad de la República (Udelar).

Higher education is a public and social good, it is a universal human right and it is the duty of the States to guarantee its equitable access. The social heterogeneity in access to the university represents an important scenario to assess the extent of such compliance by higher education institutions. When checking for social position, the determining factor is expressed on the professional skills acquired by individuals and in the accreditations obtained in the process. And, in either case, the effect can only be considered complete with completion.

The article comparatively takes up information on the evolution of the highest educational level reached by the student’s father or mother (approximation to the concept of educational ancestry) and differences in permeability in access, permanence (academic transit) and graduation (obtaining the degree), based on the census of undergraduate students carried out by Udelar in the years 1999, 2007 and 2012, sources of administrative information on enrollment and student activity at said university between 2001 and 2017 and of graduates between 2010 and 2017.

The data confirm the high social permeability of Udelar, but the general hypothesis is strengthened that the social origin continues to differentially affect the possibilities of accessing higher education at said university, and once there, of going through it, worsening later in terms of graduation opportunities (accreditation).

Keywords : higher education equity; educative accessibility; educational statistics; educative ancestry; educational sociology.

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