José Joaquín Brunner, born in Santiago de Chile, Chile, in 1944. Ph.D. from Leiden University. Professor of Sociology at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile.
Fellow (1 February 2011 – 30 June 2011)
Benchmarking Chilean Higher Education and University Performance
Chile recently became the 31st member state of the OECD and the fourth middle-high income member country, alongside Mexico, Poland and Turkey. My project will analyze Chilean higher education, which is one of the more highly privatised, within the context of OECD countries. I will use a comprehensive benchmarking exercise, based on statistical information and qualitative examination, to analyse the Chilean higher education. I will examine various dimensions and variables such as: access to higher education; participation and progress; the learning environment and the organisation of teaching; graduation rates and internal efficiency; production of advanced knowledge; financial resources invested in higher education; the output of higher education institutions and their impact. In addition, the strategies and performance of individual institutions will be assessed for a number of these dimensions and variables.
José Joaquín Brunner, Educación Superior en Chile: Instituciones, Mercados, Políticas Gubernamentales, 519 p. (Higher Education in Chile: Institutions, markets and policies, 2009).
José Joaquín Brunner,“Chile´s Higher Education: Mixed Markets and Institutions”, Die Hochschule. Journal für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2/2008, 53-70.
José Joaquín Brunner, “The Bologna Process From a Latin American Perspective”, Journal of Studies in International Education, Vol. 13, N.4, 2009, p. 417-438.