Contribution of Higher Education for the promotion of development

Abstract

Higher education has different purposes, including comprehensive training, to teach human life, to extract the potentials and positive values of people, for academic training. The subject that is presented is the analysis of the contribution of higher education to the academic formation of professionals for the promotion of development in Guatemala specifically from the graduates of the Bachelor of Business Administration of one of the private universities of Guatemala. The methodology of quantitative and qualitative research was used. In this sense, it was possible to verify that for the people researched it is achieved (88%) and for the teachers it is also achieved the formation of higher education (92%) for the promotion of development in Guatemala. With the research it was also possible to identify that it is from participative and active methodologies that the university achieves those purposes. It is important to emphasize that higher education has currently unavoidable challenges in the knowledge and information society; These challenges are: technical and scientific training, global challenges as a global citizen and respectful of individuality and human challenges in the formation of human and social values, as responsible for the search for peace and the common good. The contribution of higher education in development processes is achieved through learning strategies in which students participate and have opportunities for reflection and to know the national reality.