Reflections on the Research and Accreditation of Professional Schools in Peru, in Accordance with Law 30220

Felipe Rafael Valle Díaz1 , William Camilo Yauris Polo1 , Yudy Pérez Zúñiga2

(1. Universidad Nacional José María Arguedas, Peru; 2. Universidad Tecnológica de Los Andes, Peru)

Abstract: The research’s purpose was to reflexively understand the current status of the research and the conditions to accredit Professional Schools in Peru, under Law 30220. It is a qualitative research, which design is documentary-critical, based on information from SUNEDU, MINEDU. The technique used was documentary analysis. We are five years after the approval of the university reform and four of the ruling of the Constitutional Court that validated its approval and execution. In Peru, being a researcher is required to meet several requirements, set forth by CONCYTEC, today there are more than 2,000 recognized researchers. Research, at national level before 2014, was encapsulated, buried for decades, with honorable exceptions, which can be credited in the SCIMAGO, QSL ranking. The history of the development of research in Peru is lacking. The university law has the spirit that the bodies making up the university must be destined to produce. research, as a primary university function and this serves to solve problems in society. At Peru level; the universities have at least one electronic scientific journal, and a considerable number of them are indexed at least in Latindex. A series of very important considerations and requirements is established to accredit a Professional School, it being essential that there are developed lines of research, under specialists that respond to the concept and profile of the graduate of the Professional School and that these lines contribute to strengthening the reading praxis of the professor, in addition to the position of the Professional School. The transparent, honest, tolerant, respectable research praxis will make it possible for the research malpractice to disappear, and for this the researcher must start with a profound transformation, in addition to undergoing specific controls to renew his status as a researcher.

Key words: research, accreditation, researcher, professional school, publication