On the eve of the third anniversary of the issuance of Decree 1330 in 2019 of the Ministry of National Education and its regulation following Resolution 21795 of 2020, the academic discussion remains in the country regarding its consequences on processes of qualified-registration renewal and re-accreditation of programs as a result of different communications made by Sistema Universitario Estatal (State University System--SUE) and Asociación Colombiana de Universidades (Colombian Association of Universities--ASCUN) to Ministry of National Education and National Accreditation Council. Despite arguments raised regarding this controversial issue, a lot of questions remain unresolved and will undoubtedly be an issue that the new government will have to face to shape the quality assurance system our country has been demanding.

Recently, there was a colloquium called Evaluation by Learning Results (ERA). Pedagogical Conception and University Autonomy, which took place on May 3, 2022, arranged by SUE, and led by Universidad de Antioquia, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Tunja, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca and Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. This event focused on current concerns regarding regulations both public and private institutions in relation to impacts of new protocols, emphasizing that current provision is clear by stating that integration of ERA curricular concept is mandatory for every academic program, but leaving aside the concept of a curriculum variety that branded the life-force of Law 30 of 1992 to lay out higher education, which reaffirmed university autonomy not only from the point of view of administrative organization but also from research and teaching freedom.

The colloquium claimed a structural vision shift that has been guiding quality processes in our country, which has been based on a voluntariness and self-regulation thesis as a critical exercise of academic communities to give way to prevalence of surveillance-and-control concept by government besides there is not an adequate balance.