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The Inn•form Discussion board: FIED Colombia 2024 introduced collectively leaders from completely different sectors, who converge on the outcomes of upper schooling in Colombia, to investigate the nice challenges of upper schooling in Latin America. In the course of the occasion, the educational and operational mannequin of a prestigious American college was offered, to indicate a line of the chances that open up if forceful adjustments are achieved within the college construction of Latin America.
One of many allies of the occasion was the Congress of the Republic of Colombia, which is why amongst these invited to the conversations was Senator Paloma Valencia, who said that to rework schooling it’s essential to maneuver from phrases to actions. “Now we have to make elementary choices to be prepared for automation and Synthetic Intelligence (AI), in any other case we might be a rustic with an irremediable hole. It’s a precedence that schooling takes under consideration the productive setting of the nation and particularly within the area, to ensure the relevance of what’s discovered,” mentioned the senator.
For his half, Diego Mauricio Mazo Cuervo, discussion board attendee and rector of the CEIPA College Basis, highlighted that the occasion was very pertinent, since larger schooling faces quite a few challenges that have an effect on its high quality, accessibility and fairness. “Among the many predominant challenges are obstacles to entry, particularly in rural areas, the necessity to preserve and enhance academic high quality, inadequate and unequal financing, and fairness and inclusion. It is usually essential to align tutorial applications with the wants of the labor market, combine rising applied sciences, promote analysis and improvement, and enhance internationalization and governance,” Mazo mentioned.
Likewise, there was lively participation from the manager by means of the Ministry of Training and the Ministry of Science, Expertise and Innovation, from the productive sector with Confecámaras and the Nationwide Affiliation of Businessmen of Colombia ANDI, advisors from multilateral organizations and consultants reminiscent of the previous president of ICETEX and rectors of private and non-private universities in Colombia, reminiscent of Areandina, EAFIT, Universidad de Antioquia, Uniminuto and ITA Profesional, amongst others.
Challenges
In line with UNESCO, Unicef and ECLAC, the area is not going to obtain the schooling objectives set by the 2030 Sustainable Improvement Agenda. The enrollment fee in larger schooling in Latin America is 40% beneath the world common (57%).
“Increased schooling is a elementary pillar for the event of our continent. Addressing current gaps is essential to constructing a extra equal society,” says Dr. Adriana Angarita, President of Inn•form: FIED and CEO of SénecaLab. Angarita added that it’s key to measure the standard of instructing by means of studying, and that is completed effectively with the usage of technological instruments. Moreover, she factors out the significance of sturdy and versatile institutional administration to enhance academic high quality.
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