The evolution of the university system throughout history has followed an open and democratic process, if a service is only accessible to an elite oligarchy became a "university for all." However, today has gone a step further, is that it has become a "university for anybody."
At the beginning of the creation of universities in the High Middle Ages, the ability to pursue higher education was restricted to those nobles and clergy who because of their privileged position monopolized culture. The third state never had the privilege of entering in the cultural centers.
These first European universities were usually controlled by a religious power and studies on them are courses focus on areas scholastics. However, with the advent of the Renaissance, the scientific and humanistic thought came to higher education institutions, though still haven for the privileged.
The advent of the modern university came from the hand of the Industrial Revolution and rationalism. The doors of these centers began to slowly open to everyone. During the s. XX of the welfare state began to develop a system of scholarships for all who wished could study. And little by little, women began to occupy increasingly desks.
The university was now a haven not oligarchs but of knowledge. A cultural center that prompted the most dramatic changes in recent decades, as May 1968 or the opposition to Franco. The student movement was established for many years as a pressure group capable of mobilizing public opinion. Today, his weight has fallen drastically, in a manner directly proportional to the university system.
of the democratization of the university, "University for All", has been in college for anyone. The degenerative process has been severe and very fast. And, the growing middle class that has been generated in the West has blurred the concept of higher education.
The degree is now a donor element of prestige. Parents conceive the university as a grade in school. After high school, a career and then to work. This path set no criteria has made the university, and what is more worrying, the whole society to see the first year of high school career as a third party.
Today there is a large percentage of students who take university classes for years because their parents so wish. Not pursuing a career in own will, but follow the way society defines them. It falls into the trap of seeking a social formation, rather than a personal training and integrated.
Part of this problem is a consequence of the discredit that has the training modules. This means that all follow the road that year after year and ongoing advances in racing there is a huge number of people without any motivation.
The paradigm of the university concept has changed because now there are few studies offer for those who wish to study, but for those who do not know what to do from 18 to 24 years with his life.
logical thing to face this degradation process is that the university community and the states into action. It would be something new because many times changes have been made to redirect the road and improve the model. For example, John Locke, in his thoughts about education, it advised against the prevailing model of religious studies and proposed the renewal to some empirical studies. This text was to explore Newton in the physical powers which led to the evolution of mankind.
Bologna Plan looked to be that, a renewal on the right track, but nothing is further from the truth. The European Higher Education seeks to "establish a system of qualifications, which prepares junior college according to the European labor market "to provide an appropriate level of qualification.
the bases underlying the process of change that experience this year, all English universities objective guidelines "provide a university education that harmoniously integrate more specific skills that enable professional guidance to enable integrating graduates into the labor market. "
The Bologna Process and European Higher Education Area aims to make universities a great training module in which laborers produce efficient work and preparations. The change will suffer the university concept is enormous and irreversible as no action is taken soon.
university classrooms, before core of knowledge, will become a second high school in each union will give the necessary guidance to new workers who can work. Governments have made this change under a smokescreen of good intentions and misinformation. At no time has been exposed to the sovereignty of the people and their voting decision, but has closed ranks disqualifying opponents.
The State has different tools of education for their citizens. There is a high school, vocational training and university. Each which responds to a very worthy function that should not be confused. It is true that we need a change of course in English universities, but this is not the road. Victor Gutierrez Sanz
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