From the thought to the action…, creating public value. Strategic management tools for the integration of skills in the education system

Abstract

The evolution of education systems in the last decades, changes have been implicit in places, in the media, on objectives, but especially in the process. This evolution in the process will be linked in the coming years to the development of competency-based education, which involves the development of learning via experimentation, and that enables people, be who can and will become. This new vision of learning was described by Confucius, five hundred years before our era, “... I was told and I forgot I saw it and understood it, I did and I learned ...” But obviously now the necessary competences to integrate and develop in society have changed, as did the goals, means and needs. In this paper, we propose the use of tools and models of quality management for integrating competence education throughout the education system, from the perspective of strategic management, aligning the goals of current educational policies, to improve the system quality, economic development and social cohesion, with a management methodology such policies, so that the improvement of basic, professional and interpersonal competencies are the way to achieve these objectives through public policies that guarantee effectiveness, efficiency and effectiveness in the management of available resources in the administration, to generate public value for citizens and society as a whole.