Innovating management models to improve the doctoral education quality in Colombia

The research underlying this article was aimed at understanding the quality factors and the management practices present in Doctoral Training Programs in Education in Colombia, focusing on the specific case of a doctoral program in the city of Bogota. Become visible worrying indicators that reflect deficiencies in the quality factors and features, related to the organization, management and social impact of knowledge, as in the missionary objectives of the curriculum. A low academic and research output, and a medium theoretical, methodological and social impact of the production were also showed. Is a endogamous Doctoral Program in Education, with a low dialogue and interaction with similar programs regionally, nationally and internationally. It present too a little collaborative work, networking and connections that stimulate discussion of knowledge needed in this high level of training. Were also identified, however, notable strengths views from national and international indicators, despite national and institutional policies decisively not support or encourage research programs in education. Thus, this article suggests the need to leap to new models of educational management from the analysis of a case, from the certainty that the evaluation is the first step to resize the organization of the together working toward building a system that will improve the quality of doctoral education in Colombia.