Analysing the artefacts to produce an education of quality: from the disciple to the customer in a Colombian university

The purpose of this article is to explore how artefacts, like an electronic gradebook and a student rulebook, are linked to the exercise of the global neoliberal rationality of government; drawing on the governmentality framework, those artefacts are analysed to describe how the present regime of global government influences the formation of certain types of subjectivities in the context of a Colombian private university. It is argued that the mediation done by these “simple” artefacts to produce an education of quality contributes not only to the local but to the global regulation of higher education around the world.