Perspectives of the External Financing in the Universities: The Case of the PROFEXCE in the Universidad Veracruzana
Abstract
The Educational Quality Strengthening Program (Profexce, for its initials in Spanish) has become a strategic means available to the Undersecretariat for Higher Education (SES, for its initials in Spanish) to provide extraordinary financial resources. This program is oriented towards academic goals and gives resources to the universities according to the score obtained in an extern evaluation. With this qualitative research it is analyzed the way in which the Profexce operates, in specific the way in which it is evaluated by the committees of evaluators of the SES, in order to identify the correspondence between that evaluation and the allocation of resources. For this purpose, a case of study was realized through a content analysis methodology of three dependencies belonging to the Academic Area of Biological and Agricultural Sciences of the Universidad Veracruzana. It was analyzed how the evaluation and the evolution of the distribution of resources in the last three biennia, in which the program has operated, have been managed (2016-2017, 2018-2019, 2020-2021). These considerations have created new reflections around the challenges that face the universities around the lack of financial participation of the federation. Here it is demonstrated how the assignment of budget doesn’t answer to an appropriate formulation of projects nor the increase of the principal quality indicators of the Universities, is more predominant a criteria related to budget disposal and to factors beyond the evaluation that determine the amount allocated.
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