Desertion in higher education, Las Minas Campus, 2011-2007 period

Abstract

The study on desertion in Higher Education was carried out at the University of the Autonomous Regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast -URACCAN - Las Minas Campus, comprising three extensions: Rosita, Bonanza and Waslala, and includes the headquarters in Siuna. It is focused on measuring the magnitude of the desertion problem and the construction of proposals at an institutional, personal and social level. The questions that guided the present investigation were: What are the desertion rates and graduation rate of URACCAN Las Minas? What personal and / or family factors are associated with desertion? And what are the implications for dropouts and the cost to the university? A descriptive panorama is offered in the quantitative paradigm of the desertion to respond to the approach of the problem. The dimension is cross-sectional, retrospective and propositive because it contains a follow-up plan to the desertion problem. For the purposes of the study statistical data were used from the student registration office. A questionnaire was designed to be applied to the deserters to a sample of 25% of the universe corresponding to 662, a randomly chosen technique from a list of dropouts corresponding to the years under study was used. The found data in relation to the dropout rate were 15.95%. The factors that influence were the economic, labor and academic. The implications identified are social and institutional. The data show the dropout rate, the factors that affect, the implications for both the university and the country in general.