Dissertation and online classes? These are Carlos Slim’s recommendations for improving university education in Mexico

Slim Carlos He is one of the richest businessmen in the world. and of Mexico and Latin America, He is the richest man. He is considered a Mexican tycoon He has a fortune of $102 billionaccording to the American magazine specialized in financial matters Forbes.

The businessman is a graduate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)where he studied Civil Engineering. At a conference, next to Arthur Elijah Ayub, who is married to his daughter Johanna slim, said the Mexican tycoon In what way could UNAM educate millions of people, and not limit itself to the 350 thousand that it only has in its classes.

“While the pandemic has helped many realize the importance of high-speed internet connectivity, etc. The ability to educate millions of people with non-face-to-face education is still far behind. This conflict, which is not clear, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where I belong, has 350 thousand students, It is very difficult for him to get millions, he can’t do any university, but they could, first of all, already have, and I think with the pandemic they did, online classes,” explained the businessman.

He said that the solution to this problem to allow students who failed their entrance exam to study online, and that later, the UNAM study and get a certificate, not that they have gone to university, but that they have experience.

“Now with knowledge, many of them did not, for one reason or another, have the ability to be at UNAM, or at any university in the country.they are introduced, but very intensively, to education electronics,” he explained.

He said that another thing that could change in Mexico’s public universities, It would be the subject of a thesis. “Another thing that should be changed in public universities, which has surprised me for many years, The thing is that in the United States they study a career and finish. Here in Mexico, you study for a degree and you have to take the thesis and the professional exam. It’s not true, I believe that if he has passed all the subjects during the year, he should get his degree.”

He said maybe for a master’s or doctoral degree if it were possible to request the thesisotherwise if a thesis must be done in the degree, it will be done during the years of studying at the university. “That you do it in the years you are at university, in the four or five years you study you do all the work, and because all the teachers graduated you in thirty or forty subjects you passed, well, why do they give you a professional exam,” he said.