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Access policies at the National University of La Plata: An analysis of the entry strategies since the penalty of the Law on Higher Education (1995-2015)

Abstract

The aim of this research was to analyze and understand the admission policies for the National University of La Plata, and the implementation procedures followed by each of its academic departments through the admission strategies developed ad hoc, taking into account the power relationships (including tensions, resistance, negotiations and strategies) between the actors involved in each case from 1995 to 2015. Taking a qualitative, descriptive and analytic methodology, an intrinsic case study was carried out with a purposive sample taken from various Schools, namely: Humanities and Social Sciences, Medicine, Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, and Exact Sciences. Semi-structured interviews to key informants and documentary analysis were conducted. As a result, it was possible to characterize, from the actors' viewpoint, the admission policy encouraged by the central level and the admission strategies adopted by the chosen schools. These findings are consistent with the frameworks of reference, since it was shown that the actors had relative autonomy to develop admission strategies prior to local and national policies formulation. We studied the specific dynamics and the involvement of academic actors in a unique institutional framework. Decentralized admission policy led to the establishment of strategies with peculiar characteristics and varied courses, bringing about dissimilar positions, tensions, conflicts, negotiations and agreements. Results showed that the adoption of a certain admission policy is a complex process in which both internal and external elements take part. We see the impact of the massification processes on admission configuration as a problem that higher education policy faces, as well as the expansion and the added complexity assigned to that problem during the period studied: from the democratization related to admission to the effective inclusion related to continuity and graduation.

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