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CHIANCONE, Adriana; DAVILA, Mabel  e  MARTINEZ LARRECHEA, Enrique. Regional Differentiation of Private University Education in Uruguay: A Preliminary Approach. Propuesta educativa (Online) [online]. 2021, n.55, pp.58-72. ISSN 1995-7785.

Since the 1970s, Uruguay has experienced a progressive increase in university enrolment that led to a process of institutional and curricular differentiation within the country's only public university. Following the diversification and privatization trends that were influencing higher education systems internationally, in 1985 with the creation of the Catholic University. Moreover, the emergence of other three private universities consolidated a process of institutional diversification that was completed in the following two decades with the development of not only regional university centres within the public university, but also the Technological University, the second public university. In this context of very gradual internal differentiation, in a predominantly public university system hegemonized by the Universidad de la República, private university services were established outside Montevideo. To describe, analyse and conceptualize this process, the theoretical perspectives related to diversification processes are reviewed. Furthermore, statistical information, documentary analysis and qualified informants’ interviews are used as well as some dimensions of analysis on the regional diversification of private university education are explored. The research carried out allows us to conclude that university development in other regions of the country, outside the capital, has been a gradual process, that accompanies international trends but strongly influenced by national dynamics. In turn, it is mediated by political-academic assessments (the decision to advance in the interior, on the part of the public sector) and institutional expansion decisions at the regional level with restrictions due to and limitations of scale, market and profitability for the private sector.

Palavras-chave : Higher Education; Higher Private education; Regional differentiation; University; Uruguay.

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