The Financing of Higher Education in Colombia: Crisis and Disputes in the Framework of the Pandemic

Abstract

The article analyzes the way in which the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the structural crisis that characterizes the financing of higher education in Colombia and the different proposals that have emerged to face it. The text presents the issue of financing higher education as a political problem in which, on the one hand, privatization projects and growing government control face, and, on the other hand, transformative alternatives aimed at guaranteeing higher education as a right and a common good. Likewise, it shows how the field of dispute regarding the financing of higher education in the country has been reconfigured between 2011 and 2022.