Beschreibung:
<jats:p>Although in the late 1960s Chile had already solved traditional
problems such as basic literacy, and access to primary education and
training of highly qualified university professionals, little advance
was made by the military government in the 1970s. Thus in the early
1980s the military government introduced economic competition in the
education system, hoping to increase the quality of education in spite
of projected further cuts in public resources for education. The swift
implementation of the market model in education was soon affected by
unforeseen constraints and effects, and later on the economic crisis
forced changes in initial regulations several times during the next
decade. Economic competition eventually generated a substantial
increment of private education; decentralised decisions increased cost
recovery; but it also increased inequity in education outcomes; reduced
the ability of the system to attract good candidates to an academic
career; and reduced the share of education in the GNP.</jats:p>