Perception of the links of the chain of value and supply of the Higher Education: View from the linked actors

Abstract

A consultation was made to the institutions involved in higher education and demand of university professionals: i.- Public and private universities, ii.- Central and decentralized governmental institutions, iii.- Gremial private institutions or all of those involved in the links that form “The value chain supply of higher education.”

The links of the value chain are: i.- Provision suppliers: Those graduated from high school, families, the government and private organizations, teaching education schools, high schools; 2.- Higher Education: Universities, research centers; 3.- Intermediate petitioner: Professionals, aid workers, research results; 4.- Final petitioner: Society, employers. All the links are in a functional dynamics of relationships of offer and demand of university professionals from their formation up to their positioning within the labor market.

It was necessary to determine the existing connections between the institutions to which they represented and the remaining institutions within the chain, in order to see the interactions and the way provisions are generated for the following link. Which became even more interesting because depending on the position of the link within the chain, if it offers more provisions than demand, or if, on the other hand, it exerts more demand of university professionals, absolutely all the institutions concluded interesting observations on how the country’s universities are actually doing and on which aspects should be improved to offer better university professionals.