The education in Chile was suffering some kind of
changes since 1973 with the dictatorship of Pinochet; these changes, in a wave,
have installer economics interest in education, and that for, in a wave, the direction of education respond to economics
interest and don’t necessary respond to people’s education. For that reason I think education is going make
inequality with people, according to his economic situation. We knows that in
general terms people that have enough money can pay for a good education, and
the other people, cannot choose for his
quality of education.
When the students finish the school, the
quality of education that they received is very broad, from a very good education
to a very bad education, and mostly is defined for his economic situation. when
the students made PSU test mostly of the results generate a difference between
economic situations of the students, for that reason, we have in general term that
students with good economic conditions can study in a good university, and because the
education is been a kind of market, the student that cannot study in a
university, can study in an institute or private university or some similar,
because in Chile is been installed the idea that all the people have to study, you
are “nothing” if you don’t do it.
The problem with the inequality of
opportunities of education bound to the economics conditions is the heart of the
demands that students made. So we have a lot of people that get into debts for
tuition, and bad education. the government is making some change that mitigate
the problem, like give money for grant, or made the possibility of get into
debts but this solution don’t attack the heart of the problem and don’t make a solution
for all the students.
