Análisis y Propuestas en torno al Acceso a la Educación Superior chilena en el contexto de una reforma Educacional (Agosto 2015)[Analysis and Proposals on access to Chilean Higher Education in the context of educational reform (August 2015)]

The Chilean Ministry of Education has presented to the public a document that outlines the main guidelines of the higher education reform. Even though this document is just preliminary, we can’t let go unnoticed the insufficient development of one of the most important topics, being the access to the high education institutions. The thoughts presented in this report challenge the premises of the mentioned document and, at the same time, they bring in new initiatives and proposals recommended by experts, related to the access to high education. The topics that are addressed in depth are both the need to create a new framework in the admission system to the higher education and an analysis of the two main selection instruments: the ranking and the “PSU”. Finally, this paper approaches the need to strengthen the platforms that aim to keep the students within the high education institutions, like the mentoring and the preparation programs.