Colombia - Assisting Talented Students from Low-income Families Attend Tertiary Education
With the support of the ACCES (Acceso Con Calidad a la Educacion Superior, in Spanish) Project Colombia shifted its tertiary education policy, implementing comprehensive reforms to improve equity of tertiary education. The result of this shift has...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/01/7547176/colombia-assisting-talented-students-low-income-families-attend-tertiary-education http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10303 |
| Summary: | With the support of the ACCES (Acceso
Con Calidad a la Educacion Superior, in Spanish) Project
Colombia shifted its tertiary education policy, implementing
comprehensive reforms to improve equity of tertiary
education. The result of this shift has been impressive:
enrollment in tertiary education increased by 30 percent in
the last 3 years. The project has contributed to improved
access to tertiary education for the poor through three
direct outcomes: 1) the availability of student loans for
low-income students was markedly improved by the project; 2)
the support to doctoral programs has dramatically increased
the number of Colombian doctoral students and programs; and
3) the institutional capacity of the Ministry of Education
has increased substantially. |
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