Dr. Zúñiga was a panelist at this academic meeting that included the participation of the North American expert Dr. Deborah Elridge and a significant number of Latin American and Chilean specialists.

The Organization of Catholic Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean (ODUCAL) and the Quality Agency QUALITAS, organized in Santiago, on May 29 and 30, an international seminar that addressed the topic of quality assurance in Pedagogy and in which the dean of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of La Serena, Dr. María Zúñiga Carrasco, participated as a panelist. 

Teacher training was one of the central topics of this important academic meeting that included the participation of the North American expert Dr. Deborah Elridge and a significant number of Latin American and Chilean specialists.

The panel in which Dean Zúñiga participated, invited in her capacity as president of the National Council of Deans of Faculties of Education-CRUCH, and for her extensive experience and expertise, in the central contents of the seminar -Quality assurance in careers of the area of ​​education in Latin America - shared with the North American specialist, Dr. Elridge and the researcher and former dean of Education at the Alberto Hurtado University, Dr. Juan Eduardo García Huidobro. The panel was moderated by Andrés Bernasconi, director of the Center for Studies of Educational Policies and Practices (CEPPE), of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Dean Zúñiga pointed out that specifically, her position dealt with the problems that the Pedagogy career currently has and the strategies that universities are developing to resolve these conflicts, from a quality assurance perspective. ''The planning of work, the integration of efforts and a systematic process of monitoring and feedback of actions make a virtuous whole, which increases over time. The opposite, which is what frequently happens, is that a strategic approach to addressing situations is not applied, starting from the lack of competence of those who have to design, conduct and accompany the training processes. In the case of teacher training, careless actions, failure to develop disciplinary and professional skills in our students, is something that is paid dearly because future teachers have a very great influence on several generations of our children. in our country,'' he said.