La evaluación externa una oportunidad para mejorar la calidad de la educación superior. El caso de la Universidad de Cuenca

The work "External evaluation an opportunity to improve the quality of higher education. The case of the University of Cuenca, Ecuador ", is part of the thematic lines" International trends in higher education "and" Planning, direction strategic and quality in the university institutions ", has as purpose to demonstrate that the University of Cuenca assumed the external evaluation made by the Council of Evaluation, Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Higher Education -CEAACES, as an opportunity to implement the improvement Continuing, through a planned management, its academic performance inside and outside the country, for which, a schematic analysis of the process of institutionalization of higher education in Ecuador was made, then, the world trends were analyzed briefly. The third reform of higher education in Ecuador is registered, and finally, through testimonies from authorities, teachers, students and businessmen, the before and after the external evaluation is demonstrated.