Tertiary Education for Indigenous Students. A Case Study on Institutional Relational Proximity

Sara Balestri, Simona Beretta () and Matthias E.A. Nebel ()
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Simona Beretta: Department of International Economics, Institutions and Development - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Matthias E.A. Nebel: Instituto Promotor del Bien Comun, Universidad Popular Auto´noma del Estado de Puebla, (UPAEP), Mexico

Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2024, vol. 132, issue 2, 123-150

Abstract: Gaps in access and completion rates in Indigenous tertiary education are widespread and reportedly difficult to tackle. Following a survey of national experiences, with a special focus on Mexico, the paper explores Apuesta de Futuro (AF), a scholarship programme for Indigenous students by the Universidad Popular Auto´noma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP, Puebla, Mexico) where individual educational achievements and community perspectives are intertwined by design. This programme has achieved remarkable completion rates for Indigenous students, above the overall rate for UPAEP students. A possible explanation for AF success is the strong emphasis on accompaniment of AF students, in terms of individual academic support and in promoting development in their communities of origin. As a proxy for accompaniment, the paper longitudinally explores the relational proximity of AF and non-AF students to the university, showing a stronger increase in relational proximity for AF students as compared to non-AF students.

Keywords: Indigenous students; tertiary education; relational proximity; accompaniment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I25 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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