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In Mexico, Technical professional education has transformed its graduation profile for almost two decades, going from offering training for work with a terminal character to adopting the baccalaureate, enabling the transition to higher education. The transformations of the academic and curricular model have brought about a change in the student profile that has been little studied up to now. Due to the above, the present work provides relevant evidence from the study of the educational and labor expectations of students about to graduate from Conalep. The main finding identified is that the expectations towards higher education are a generalized desire, regardless of the family context and economic situation. In this sense, family and economic factors exert a major influence that limits the realization of said life project. These two factors condition the decision to opt for work and not follow the vocational effect of careers. Likewise, the study provides evidence of the vocational strength towards work the Training Model holds in the Conalep System. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article seeks to show the feelings and voices of the actors of higher education from within the training process, contrasting them with the provisions and suggestions of international organizations and national agreements. For this, at first, it points out the economic impact that has been unleashed by the pandemic Covid-19, leaving in second place the consequences in education, that is, that the health context has a greater impact on the economy, whereas, in education, only the evident affectations are shown. The fundamental objective is to demonstrate the feeling, the obstacles, the developed competences and the real challenges that the adjustment from face-to-face to virtual teaching has produced from the voice of students, teachers, and managers; in order to be a reference for proposals, programs or plans in higher education in pandemic contexts. The methodology used was content analysis with mixed design, since, when categorizing the data obtained from the questionnaire applied to the actors of higher education, they were systematized in MAXQDA2020 for plotting. Finally, there is a contrast between what is real and what is expressed about higher education by international organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]