Policy analysis in the education sector in Colombia

Resumen

This chapter presents a detailed case study of policies governing the hiring, training, compensation, and evaluation of schoolteachers. It traces reforms over a period of two decades and identifies key actors and competing decision criteria at each stage of the policy process. It also looks at teacher policy to illustrate the practice of policy analysis in education policy in Colombia at the national level after the 1990s reforms. The chapter uses reform in policies regarding public school teachers as a case to analyse the process of policy formulation and implementation in the education sector in Colombia. It defines several issues that have a direct impact on the quality of primary and secondary education.