El Caribe colombiano: Caracterización del acceso a la educación superior registrados en el SNIES entre el año 2014 y 2021

Abstract

This article is part of a documentary review of different studies and quantitative and qualitative data on the incidence of access to higher education. For this reason, it is established as an objective to understand, from a theoretical-conceptual and statistical framework, supports that generate an idea about the various characteristics of the institutions and areas of knowledge, level of training and methodologies that have been presented in the last 8 years on the coast. Colombian Caribbean of men and women. The theoretical methods used were analysis-synthesis, induction, and as a method the documentary and bibliographic review in which secondary data were used. This gave rise to the main constructs established at the structural, methodological and results levels. As an effect, a consistent result was obtained with the existing reality in the university field in which the higher education coverage rate registered in 2021 was 53%, only 0.2% more than that registered in 2014. where the coverage rate was 52.8%. In this way, it is concluded that there are shortcomings at the level of policies, plans, programs and projects that give rise to better opportunities to close the inequality in access and guarantee participation in training processes under equal conditions regardless of the area or career to which what is aspirated.