Attention to vunerable groups and equity indicators in Higher Education: A case study in a southeast Mexican public university.

Abstract

The education of vulnerable groups is an educational policy that all institutions must assume in order to achieve equity and social justice in the world. In Mexico, lot of efforts have been made to establish policies, programs and compensatory strategies to give opportunities to these groups. We present a case study of a southeast Mexican public university that faces and attends a diversity of students who have disadvantages because of their disability, economic situation, gender or ethnic origins. It is concluded that although there are actions tending to increase equity in higher education, greater efforts are needed, as well as studies that allow the permanent diagnosis of the improvement of these vulnerable groups.