Higher education in Mexico, neoliberalism and transition process

Abstract

This article explains the main features of the contemporary Mexican higher education system, locating two perspectives of the constitution of educational policies: 1) the logic of neoliberal education that dominated four decades in the country, and 2) the idea of ​​progressivism defined in the current government as the Fourth Transformation (4T). The implications and differences between both approaches are presented that allow us to locate the advances and challenges of the system in the change of political regime. It especially delves into the configuration of the private sector, its heterogeneity and participation that allows us to locate the incidence of the educational vision of the national right, its frameworks of dispute and intervention scenarios with the purpose of establishing a broader vision in the group of the higher education systems in Latin America around the challenges posed in the exercise of the right to education in the region and the possibilities of coping.