Impacto en los niveles de deserción y reprobación en los estudiantes usuarios de la estancia infantil de la Universidad Tecnológica de Chihuahua

Abstract

Being a father and mother and student at the same time is an increasingly frequent challenge among young people in the city of Chihuahua. The Technological University, having an important number of students in this situation and with the difficulty to looking after their children while attending classes, decides to open a day-care center, with a compatible schedule with their studies. The project aims to measure the impact that the nursery has on the rates of failure, permanence and attrition, with the users of the service three years after its foundation. The type of conclusive, descriptive and cross-sectional research is used through a structured questionnaire and statistics analysis of the students who use the service. The most relevant results are: 82.6% are women mothers, most of them use the service since they started in college and 87% decided to enter the UTCH for having a day-care center, and 91% said the failure index has decreased and the academic achievement has improved. Students perceive that the day-care has provided them with economic, academic and security benefits by having their children close and attended by expert staff.