SOCIAL INTERVENTION AND STUDENT TUTORING AS A MEASURE TO DECREASE THE DROPOUT RATES OF THE UNIVERSITIES OF THE MANABÍ PROVINCE, PERIOD 2015-2019

Abstract

Education has become a fundamental condition for the economic and social development of the population, it also allows individuals to provide essential elements for the exercise of their freedoms and capacities. University dropout is one of the phenomena that affect almost all educational institutions in the country and the world. This fact manifests itself with the student's disengagement from their academic studies in a definitive or partial way, which is caused by different factors, be they economic, social, academic, or personal. Despite the increasing advances that higher education has made over time, there are many factors that directly or indirectly affect students, which could limit their permanence in the training process, causing the postponement or even abandonment of studies. This study topic focuses on investigating the level of professional intervention of social workers in the Universities of the Province of Manabí and determining how this influences the decrease in university dropout rates, for which a comparison of the dropout rates, as well as social intervention in the establishments. In addition, a quantitative projection of dropout rates will be carried out in the last 5 years at the general level of each Institute of higher education In this way, based on the results, it is intended to propose alternatives that allow increasing the professional intervention of social workers and, in effect, the reduction of dropout rates at the provincial level, thus strengthening the evaluation indicators of the Higher Education system, and creating alternatives that allow them to be strengthened.

Keywords: Student dropout, dropout rates, social intervention, University dropout.