Políticas de educación superior en Argentina. Entre la Covid-19 y la deuda externa heredada

Abstract

In Argentina, after twelve years of progressive government administrations (2003-2015) that placed higher education as a human right and a social public good, with clear achievements in expanding access, inclusion, and scientific research, it was succeded by the administration of the Alianza Cambiemos (2015-2019). The public policies, particularly those targetting higher education, dismantled the previous policies under the argument that “the poor do not attend the university”. This article aims at analyzing the higher education agenda of the newly elected administration (December 2019), hypothesizing about a recovery and deepening of the progress made in governments of the same political views as the current one, faced with the COVID-19 pandemic and renegotiation of the inherited foreign debt that relegated other public policy issues to the background.