Differentiation and Convergence in Higher Education

The change in institutions of higher education in the last twenty years of the 20th century led to a change in their consideration as institutions that produce public good promote development social mobility and disseminate culture; to conceive of them as companies higher education should function as a market where institutions of higher education compete. The previous discourse was less and less used by its defenders and forgotten by the promoters of these institutions. This brought with it the appearance of the phenomenon of differentiation and convergence the object of reflection in this essay; to explain what it is and how the structural change of the institutions of higher education is expressed; how its transit towards its business form takes place the implications that this brought among them in its interior and in the national systems of higher education.