ABSTRACT
Advances in the Mexican educational system have been important during the last fifty years. Increases in the literacy rates and the average years of school per capita, the expansion of all levels of education, and the increase in the quantity of people involved in offering educational services have been accompanied by changes associated with other social processes such as increasing urbanization, changes in the composition of employment, and a slowing in the rate of population growth, among others. However, even today the constitutional edict of basic education for all has not been achieved, and the conditions of the supply of relevant and high quality education, and the improvement of opportunities for access to post-basic education are disputed. Thus, although it is certain that educational efforts are important, they have not, however, been sufficient to achieve the objectives hoped for from the national educational system.
