Advancement of universities among accomplishments of 2011

Various efforts made by the Dominican universities to overcome its shortcomings and weaknesses is the main achievement of higher education during the year 2011.

Thus highlights the Minister of higher education, Ligia Amada Melo, who said that the country's universities have undergone improvements plans to overcome the shortcomings of research, few teachers with doctorate level and dedicated time complete, lack of laboratories and tutoring students with underachievement, defective physical infrastructure and problems of management.

The official also gave to know the main purposes has the portfolio which runs this year, which includes continuing the process of improving the quality of higher education, promote the training of doctors, promote the process of accreditation of universities and careers with international standards, and expand and strengthen scientific research and u000aeducational.

Improvements that have been carrying out of the country's universities is the result of the commitment made by their rectors and authorities following the five-year evaluation process that two years implemented the Ministry of higher education in 35 schools.

"This has been a movement in the universities of much reflection on the part of authorities, what its shortcomings, weaknesses;" "and the truth is that they have made extraordinary efforts to overcome them, and for me that is our main achievement," said Melo de Cardona.

Added that it is a continuous process that is not being limited to 2011, because with the great interest which have the guiding modernize and be consistent with universities of international standards, it is a fact that will continue with the efforts that had already begun.

"This process ensures that the quality of higher education, if it is not currently optimal, is on track for" u000a"improvement", said, and added that their aspiration is that universities in the country in 5 or 10 years already have category of excellence, which can, even, some being ranked as universities with world-class recognized.

Scholarship

also in 2011, the Government through the Ministry of higher education awarded 1,780 scholarships international and around four thousand for local universities, being the year in which more educational facilities were handed over.

Another achievement that quoted Education Minister best is that many professionals returning to the country with their titles, result of grants from previous years, will have been inserting production, business sectors, both agencies of the State.

Over 5700 students graduated from the English programs of immersion sponsored by the Ministry of higher education.

On the subject, Melo's u000aCardona said that also found that graduates of the program of English conclude studies with more knowledge of this language, that they mostly get inserted into productive sectors such as call center, tourism, export processing zones and international companies.

Redesign curriculum
as part of the policy that has the Ministry to update all the curricula of the different races that are taught in Dominican Republic, in 2011 that portfolio "strongly" worked on the redesign of careers in education, engineering, nursing and began with that of tourism.

The aim is that these races are more relevant, to respond to the needs of the country and to the knowledge of today.

As part of this work, some 27 career education curricula were already assessed by the National Council of education and the other universities are in the process of redesign.

With regard to the plan u000astudy of engineering career, made the diagnosis and are recommendations on how to improve them.

Progress was also made in the accreditation of medicine in United States.

The Ministry of higher education increased the number of research projects in 2011, and rose up to six years the time for completion of a project and for an amount of up to RD$ 12 million, that have become efforts to form a community of researchers.

( ) Targets for this year

between the actions proposed by the Ministry of higher education for the current year are boosting the training of doctors in different areas of knowledge; expand and strengthen the scientific and educational, research and continue the process of improving the quality of university level education technical, undergraduate and postgraduate.

Addition, seeks to promote the process of accreditation of u000auniversities and careers with international standards, and contribute to promoting scientific innovation both in the productive sectors such as education.

Other actions proposed to carry out the Ministry of higher education for 2012 is strengthening internationalization, facilitating the exchange of professors and university students with international universities of high prestige and international recognition.

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