The training and the exercise of university teaching in Ecuador. Challenges

Abstract

This research study concerns the need the higher education system has to train faculty members; this study begins with the analysis of the same process carried out in Bologna. Then, the latest higher education institutions´ policies published by the government refereeing their functioning in Ecuador in 2015 are described; the current faculty staff development offerings by higher education institutions in the country are reviewed as well as those topics to be considered in a future faculty training process.
This study is eminently documented and written on the basis of the existing information and information published by the current regulatory bodies as well as universities around the country.
Experiences from faculty training from Colombia are taking into consideration in this study. In addition, faculty functions, powers, responsibilities concerning teaching, research and higher education center management are analyzed according to the law.
Each one of the functions are reviewed according to the law in order to reach quality education. The weak relationship among existing laws considering the attention the community deserves from higher education institutions is highlighted.
Some conclusions are drawn, some of them related to the changes occurred in the development of universities in the country in the last years.