The management of the curriculum by competences in higher education institutions

Abstract

In Nicaragua, as in the rest of the countries of the world, universities, like all institutions or organizations, are undergoing very significant transformations, which have to do with all their substantive functions, going through the academic to reach their context organizational Thus, faced with these scenarios, today's universities must be able to adapt to the new demands and demands of the market, technological progress and the constant changes of political systems, in addition to this, Nicaraguan universities and mainly public universities must face this process of adaptation in a context of sustained mass enrollment, which makes the task even more complicated. The way to manage a curriculum in this new context, is the subject that is addressed in the present essay, which is developed in such a way that, at first we conceptualize the term management, or rather we put it in context in a sense broad, to later give way to change management specifically in the field of universities. Given that our main interest is the management of the curriculum, the last part of the development of the writing is dedicated to addressing this issue, emphasizing the management of the curriculum by competencies. We can not stop making some conclusive approaches to the topic addressed, for which the essay ends with the presentation of our conclusions.