XIX. EQUIDAD Y ACCESO A LA EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR EN COLOMBIA: ANÁLISIS DE LOS PROGRAMAS SER PILO PAGA Y GENERACIÓN E

Abstract

Education is one of the indicators of development and social progress in a country and
It is a fundamental tool to achieve social equity. However, the
Higher education is the educational level with the most unequal access in Latin America. In
Colombia only 22% of people between 25-64 years are university students. in the last
years, programs have been developed that seek to promote access through
forgivable credits, such as Ser Pilo Paga and Generación E. This reflective article
aims to analyze how these programs contribute to the promotion
of equity in the country, for this a qualitative methodological design is used,
whose information gathering strategy is documentary review. As results are
finds that, although these programs manage to improve the probabilities of access to
young people with the lowest socioeconomic levels in the country, present some shortcomings that
end up generating situations of inequity both for their beneficiaries and for the population
in general. It is concluded that to generate access programs to higher education that
are equitable, it is necessary that there is an integration of public policies in all
educational levels, given that the inequities that are present from the beginning of the
schooling are reflected at all levels and stages of the educational process.