Analysis of the hidden costs of public higher education

• Main Authors: Jonathan Javier Guamán-Paredes, Verónica Paulina Moreno-Narváez, Jaime Fabián Díaz-Córdova
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Fundación Koinonia 2020-09-01
• Series: Revista Arbitrada Interdisciplinaria Koinonía
• Subjects: contabilidad de costes; costes educativos; economía de la educación; sistema educativo; universidad.
• Online Access: https://fundacionkoinonia.com.ve/ojs/index.php/revistakoinonia/article/view/947

The objective was to analyze the hidden costs of public higher education in the province of Chimborazo - Ecuador. The scope of the investigative work was descriptive-transversal. The hidden costs have a great impact on the permanence of the individual within the public university institutions of the province of Chimborazo, that is, university students do not have sufficient income and lack an educational savings plan, their aspirations to having a profession are truncated. The need to design strategies that allow the identification of hidden costs and holistically analyze the incidence of each of the costs incurred during the studies, in order to generate a positive effect to the extent that they are identified.