This study subdivides chronologically into two portions. The first deals with the conception of the reform and the circumstances leading up to the publication of the scope of the reform, the institutional infrastructure, and the processes of innovation. These subtopics correspond to the division into objectives, means, and processes. The scope of the reform is analyzed in the light of four categories of innovation: objectives and functions, organization and administration, roles and role relationships, and curriculum. This framework permits the analysis of two types of innovation. The first is innovation consisting in changing the infrastructure so as to create (or eliminate) institutions or to change institutionalized relationships within the infrastructure. The second is innovation by the institutions themselves. (Author/IRT)