Conditions for completing the final integrative work in undergraduate courses: a study on the Instituto Universitario De Gendarmería Nacional Argentina (IUGNA)

Abstract

The low graduation rates in the IUGNA degree programs make up one of the issues that most concern their authorities today. Although the majority of students who decide to pursue a university education at IUGNA successfully pass the curriculum subjects, they do not overcome the last requirement to graduate: the culmination of the Final Integrative Work (TIF). Based on this problem, the question that guides this article is what are the conditions that affect students in the development and completion of the TIF in the IUGNA degree programs?
Three types of conditions were identified: institutional, material and educational. It was possible to corroborate that the main conditioning factors that affect the development and the terminality of the TIF are the institutional conditioning factors, even over the material and educational conditions or, also called, of previous training. This means that if the institutional context develops accompanying strategies, students can develop their final work and socio-economic origins and prior training become not an obstacle