The Influence of the World Bank on the Educational Policies in Colombia

Abstract

This article offers a summary vision around the educational policies designed by the World Bank and their recent application in Colombia. It locates in that approach they call Educational Revolution and emphasizes in the last governmental decisions related to higher education. It is underlined, likewise, the conception about education that it is reposed in the National Plans of Development, and the previewed strategies to promote the named policies, which get a mercantilist focus that has a serious incidence in the privatizing tendencies of public education.