Benefits of university extension in students’ education: a qualitative analysis

Abstract

It was proposed to know the contributions that are projected in the university extension for the professional training of the students of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the National University of Itapúa, for which interviews and surveys were used as data collection instruments; likewise, to the analysis of documents such as the Policy, the Regulations, the Extension Yearbooks, and the University Statute, in order to contextualize the subject under study; based on the mixed approach of the investigation, since the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was required to achieve the objectives. As a result, it was possible to know the extension activities carried out during the study period, which have responded and strengthened the graduation profiles, and have been framed in the three dimensions of training, instructional, developmental and educational, thus generating a space for the strengthening of knowledge, institutional commitment and communication between the university and society, as a mechanism for problem solving. However, there is still a lot to work on, considering that education is a process of continuous improvement and the higher level is not exempt from this reality.