Latin American universities’ future.

Abstract

Latin American universities are at a disadvantage as compared to those of the rich countries. The number of graduates in relation to population, number of research programs in science and technology, budget, etc., reveal their flaws. This paper examines some proposals from the flexible training point of view and also overlooks the organization that usually is based on administration over the academic matters. With few exceptions, the Latin American universities are still pre‐modern: the pre‐eminence does not generate academic merit, and concern for the infrastructure problems occur instead of the teaching ones, making the results not competitive on the international level. The investigation is insufficient or even nonexistent, and full time researchers are very few and often give opinions that agree with the administration. Some changes are suggested.