Higher education in Ecuador: a look from the technical training

Abstract

Higher Education has tried to repower itself, from holistic and multidisciplinary approaches that have high value in the training of professionals. The position of the institutions that identify with this need is fundamentally due to the results of a series of reports that expose the current state of access to higher education and the commitment of several countries with objective four of the 2030 Agenda for Development. Sustainable. In accordance, the present study assumes a qualitative type of research that exposes a theoretical review to systematize the trend of Higher Education from the demand for technical and technological training in the context of the pandemic. The documentary review, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction and the logical historical method allow us to delve into the current state of the object of study. As a result, it is verified that Ecuador proposes as a goal for the year 2030 to work on increasing access to higher education to move the gross enrollment rate from 18.90% to more than 50.27%, involving more than 286 Institutes. Technological and 61 universities, as a complement, it has been possible to increase the academic offer in more than 3,313 careers in the framework of the pandemic. At this point, it has been possible to resize the focus of the substantive functions that allude to teaching, research, and outreach, with emerging strategies that favor professional training in light of the limitations that derive from confinement.