The University Out Of Time: Country Project

College outside of time: national project

Meléndez López Teodulo

The university, in overall terms, no longer the only center of higher education and scientific research. Its loss of hegemony is that the add in this crisis. The university with the powers foisted the twentieth century can no longer continue. This is reflected in our own reality. It is from there that a Venezuelan government as the current tried to intervene to make it a favorable ideological center to your project and there is a university blindfolded does not feel that it is not just-way-of shrinking resources an attempt to bend, but a purpose that is based in the clear objective of putting the service of a project taking advantage of their own crisis misunderstood by factors that lead.

It follows that the support of a struggle in pursuit of the reluctant State which does not mean financial support, with all the implications that this has led in recent history, is a clear lack of understanding of their own crisis. The limited application of the students to improve a room or transportation is a sign of lack of vision.

In the first world universities remain the forming elites because there still holds a national project and these institutions are fully inserted in it, although this usually very high copper plate. The Venezuelan university has significantly reduced its production of culture and critical thinking which places it in a situation of loss of legitimacy and makes it vulnerable. It is, therefore, only the external enemy played by a government that knows that he loves, but also in the same percentage, the internal enemy that eats.

The university should have autonomy to define their values, but can not escape the confrontation with external reality. The university has lost its intellectual and its influence on the social context that surrounds it.

Meanwhile, between us, the State is without considering the autonomous universities to fund a public good, which can also lead to a kind of privatization, but awareness. There are specific details of this authoritarian regime, but also an internal enemy, which aims to preserve them as they were throughout the twentieth century.

The deterioration of the university has been progressive, missing equipment, the staff is very poorly paid professorial and research has been greatly reduced. The reaction of the university is responding to protests against the state no longer fund it. Moreover, this loss of high technology affects fundamental institution itself with its fast information systems. The world is approaching what we call a knowledge society and this requires trained human capital and high-speed transfer of cognitive skills. In this world that looks has changed the relationship between consumer knowledge and those who are supposed to no longer taught at the university called single institution. Already the power of the teacher in class is not. Power is the searchable online teaching technologies. Since college knowledge has become insufficient to the extent that the nascent field requires knowledge plural plural sources to meet a world that every day leaves more to resemble the twentieth century. That is, the space necessary knowledge is more open than closed the university. With the word "empowerment" described in my last book published the general climate of your destination absorption by the people.

Now, in short, the valuation that the emerging social body of the university it is the same of the last century and this leads to a question that must be addressed through new alliances extramural by universities. Even a university that would produce science would be questioned, as we are now in the midst of a fracture, which leads her to defend the circumstances and wrong means enclosed in a waterproof limited to the defense of autonomy and academic freedom without realizing that you can not keep them if reform does not go into very deep.

In this sense, the present government wants to tie these institutions to a project we know as the university goes to hell no one to take. Moreover, disabled to try to generate one. Therefore we must redefine what is college. He said the reform should make the university without interference and so I suggested that it may be canceled debts and liabilities and require that this reform to make them adapt to the present times and its placement in important places between the centers of world knowledge.

A university could not autointerrogarse not find the exit doors and be easy prey. The best proof is the student movements that limit their demands on dining, transportation and scholarships, all needed each other, but show a mental shortness good test that the university is not forming properly.

If the university is unable to disturb toward ideational transformation by one route or another state that the funds will impose its own conception. Moreover if you insist on staying as it was, because this is tantamount to assuming the project of a country that no longer exists. If the university does not react and reform will not end up losing all legitimacy. Then they would not fit more than the good wishes of the orientation, democratic, aware and supportive towards freedom and plurality of knowledge.



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