Relación empresa-universidades de gestión privada con carrera de arquitectura de Paraguay desde la visión de la Universidad, 2015

Abstract

This paper investigates the level of relationship between the private management universities with Architectural career, and the local construction and urbanization companies of Paraguay in 2015, trying to obtain updated data that can boost the link and replicate its application to other environments. The study is carried out from the theoretical perspective proposed by Herrera Fuentes (2006), who affirms that the insufficiencies in the training of university graduates to face with quality their professional functions in the companies, derive fundamentally from the weakness of the University-Business relationship. The research is conducted from a quantitative approach that analyzes the scope of the university-company relationship in the aforementioned range. Participate in the study, private management universities with a career in Architecture in Paraguay in 2015, which maintain links with construction and urban planning companies. The research included seven Architecture degrees belonging to private management universities in Asunción (4), Coronel Oviedo (1), Ciudad del Este (1) and Encarnación (1). Although the research showed interesting results in terms of the level of awareness of the participants on the link as an effective means to bring relevance to education and sustainability to the parties, it showed that it is in the initial stage, since it is not yet systematic and fruitful, by the absence of adequate institutional channels that allow a diagnosis of potential areas to establish agreements, clear policies oriented to that end, and a more efficient communication and monitoring for the activities linked with enterprises.