Quality education or detriment of the public university: Building a critical look around the 1990s public higher education policy

This paper presents an analysis regarding higher education public policies along the 1990's, which have changed the relationships between public university and the State. Thus, from a critical perspective of the modernizing paradigm, this paper explains the main changes public universities had faced by effective evaluation means which depend on the predominant economic policies. According to the previous ideas, within public universities, a set of deep reforms have been installed, which introduce changes into curriculums, "nancing methods, programs' orientation, research, and organization. Those reforms modify the sense and purpose of public university.