From the disagreement with the Reform of Law 30 to the Superior Agreement 2034

Abstract

The "great national dialogue for higher education" was presented as the proposal of the great consensus that took place in Colombia. A sumptuous denomination, since it places this assignment as the broadest of conversations about education in our national environment, a result that the National Council of Higher Education (CESU) presented to the public.

Prior to the process carried out by the CESU, in 2012 the National Student Wide Table - MANE Colombia, presented to the Colombian society an "explanatory statement of a new law of higher education for a country with sovereignty, democracy and peace". The objective of this document was oriented to establish the criteria of political, legal, academic and philosophical order that would allow to specify higher education as a fundamental right and common good for Colombian society, advancing in the construction of a Higher Education System, having like main axis that the superior education is public, guaranteed and financed by the State. This student movement, waved the democratic flag for the construction of the proposal of a new education for a country with sovereignty, democracy and peace, having a lot of echo in the mobilization and suffering a reflux in wanting to materialize the policy developed by the social group.

The following critical essay addresses elements of analysis to discuss the educational situation of the country from a controversial dialogue.