This article analyses the main orientations in the Chilean college reform in 1981. We discuss the impact on the college education public system and, particularly, the role that the State has taken on in the field after applying efficient financial instruments in agreement with free-market policies. In the paper we support a policy of consistent governmental financing with a more active role of the State that foresees a fairer society. We also analyze essential factors in education that have been forgotten in the eagerness of making it work more efficiently under market laws.
Public financing of education; College orientation; State universities; Neoliberalism; Chilean college education