National Pedagogic University (Colombia)
The National Pedagogic University () located in Bogotá, capital of Colombia, is a university under the Ministry of National Education of Colombia. It began academic works as a female education institution; in 1962 it acquired its national and joint character. It offers 20 undergraduate academic programs and 19 graduate, within which is the only doctorate in education offered in the country, in agreement with the Universidad del Valle and Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. The National Pedagogic University has the principal goal of integral teacher training through a coherent educational plan based on the principles underlying  its nature and rationale. teach excellence, quality, equity, membership and academic rigor of the training programs and processes in teaching, research and extension. That is because of its slogan "Educating Educators". The university has received the high quality institutional accreditation by the Ministry of Education in 2016. History. The university is a chapter in Colombian history linked to the development of education, for their contribution to teacher training in different areas of knowledge and research, production and dissemination of national educational thinking. It was created by the National Pedagogical Institute was founded in 1927 in an effort to provide higher  education to students graduating from the Institute. After a few years, the University ceased to be dependent on the school, and now has control and autonomous economic administration. By Act 30 of 1992 and the General Law of Education was consecrated as the institution advises the Ministry of National Education regarding educational policies for teacher training, as well as a result of historical development, its contribution to the country with about 20,000 professionals in education Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels and the heritage they inherited from these institutions is configured as an entity capable of developing an organizational culture that will  allow collect the pedagogical tradition of this century, to the extent that it has been important player in the process of teacher training, assimilating critically the various historical experiences and reworked in accordance with the current conditions. Academic programs. The Faculties of the National Pedagogical University is an academic and administrative structure that depend on the Vice-Rector Academic. It currently has five colleges that offer academic programs to undergraduate and postgraduate courses covering the areas of pedagogical knowledge. Pedagogical University and the National Development Plan. Some professors at the National Pedagogical University, concerned about the consequences of the National  Development Plan for Higher Education, have prepared a document that states the obvious deterioration of university education in Colombia. This deterioration is due to the current government's position on economic development, which has led it to adopt neoliberal economic policies that have affected public education. Furthermore, pursuing such policies in the future would cause even more privatization of public universities.