“Competencies within the professional role: differences between higher education (university) and the demands of the labor market”

Abstract

This paper aims to contribute to the necessary debate on the making of some pending responses in terms of academic training of future professionals and the characteristics of such training. This entails not only taking into account which demands are to be made to university education, but also considering which demands it should respond to, and what their possibilities are, as well as its specificities and resources.
At present, there is a confrontation between the needs in the training of professionals in the formal education system (at higher level university) and the needs that organizations postulate within the labor market.
That is why it requires a thorough analysis regarding the role of competence training in both environments.
Finally, a brief introduction to the Declaration of Bologna and the Tuning Project in Latin America, as new raids competency curriculum in university education