Higher Education and Profit Logic in the Education System. Social Consequences of the Expansion of Low-cost-private-universities in Peru

Research Project (to be discussed at the Winter Academy) by Carmela Chávez. Carmela Chávez is a researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Catòlica del Peru (PUCP) and is currently pursuing a PhD in sociology. She is interested in the relationship between state and society and the development of citizenship, particularly in Peru's post-conflict context of democratic consolidation. Education Protests (photo: Quetzal-Leipzig.de) This project explores the changes in higher education in Peru since..