La Higher education in Peru in times of pandemic and its effects on in the trajectories of indigenous university students

Abstract

This research seeks to present evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on the higher education of Peruvian indigenous youth. It is highly important to point out how emergency scenarios especially impact these populations, taking into account that they have been historically excluded, not only because of the accumulation of the effects of historical exclusion, but also because of the renewed evidence of State actions that keep not taking into consideration indigenous peoples’ life conditions. Based on an exercise related to the a state of art accompanied bysynchronous tracking of news, official measures, virtual spaces (webinars) where leaders and university students have expressed themselves, as well as conversations with officials, we consider that even with the limits that the pandemic has imposed in qualitative research, this article has much to contribute to the debate on access, permanence and graduation of indigenous students in higher education.