Under the title «Quality Assurance in a Highly Privatized and Marketized Higher Education System: The Case of Chile», Eduardo Rivera, presents a study that explore in detail two broad areas of research and debate, areas that go beyond the interest in academia and flow in the political life of the countries: privatization of HE and the concerns and discussion about quality. The analysis will focus on a Latin American country that has unique characteristics that allows for the analysis of both phenomena, Chile.