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Report created by multiple authors with main contributor for higher education Gertjan, a student, formerly at ATiT. Main controbutor for schools and colleges Giles Pepler
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Argentina in a nutshell

Map of Argentina, source: Wikimedia Commons

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (Spanish: República Argentina), is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city. It is the second largest country in South America and eighth in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico, Colombia and Spain are more populous. Its continental area is 2,766,890 square kilometres (1,068,300 sq mi), between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south.

Argentina borders Paraguay and Bolivia to the north, Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast, and Chile to the west and south.

The population of Argentina is just over 40 million.

Argentina has the second highest Human Development Index level and the second highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in purchasing power parity in Latin America. Argentina's nominal GDP is the 30th largest in the world; but when purchasing power is taken into account, its total GDP makes it the 23rd largest economy in the world.

The country is currently classified as an Upper-Middle Income Country or as a secondary emerging market by the World Bank.

Argentina is also one of the G-20 major economies.

Sourced from Wikipedia's page on Argentina

Education in Argentina

After independence, Argentina constructed a national public education system in comparison to other nations, placing the country high up in the global rankings of literacy. Today the country has a literacy rate of 97%, and three in eight adults over age 20 have completed secondary school studies or higher.

Education in Argentina is a responsibility shared by the national government, the provinces and federal district and private institutions, though basic guidelines have historically been set by the Ministry of Education.

Sourced from Wikipedia's page on Argentina > Education, Education in Argentina and Nationmaster

The ministry responsible for education is called the Ministerio de Educación de la Nación (Ministry of National Education).

Education in Argentina is divided in three phases as in other countries: primary education or "Basic General Education", secondary education and higher education.

Adults in Argentina have spent an average of 8.8 years in school - the highest amount for any South American country. The primary completion rate is 99% and 79.1% of young people are enrolled in secondary establishments.

Compulsory education lasts for 9 years, and comprises grades first to ninth and is called Educación General Básica or EGB (Basic General Education). It is divided in three ciclos (cycles):

EGB I: 1st, 2nd and 3rd school years
EGB II: 4th, 5th and 6th school years
EGB III: 7th, 8th and 9th school years.

The first 6 years are spent in primary schools and EGB III comprises the first 3 years of the six year secondary curriculum. EGB is mandatory to all students, although desertion is high in some parts of the country and laws intended to prevent this are rarely enforced.

Once the EGB phase is completed, the student finishes the mandatory schooling period and can choose to start secondary education, called Polimodal, which usually last two to three more years. The third stage is higher education.

Education is funded by tax payers at all levels except for the majority of graduate studies. There are many private school institutions in the primary, secondary and university levels. Around 11.4 million people were enrolled in formal education of some kind in 2005.

Adapted from Education in Argentina

Schools in Argentina

There are three levels of schools:

17726 Preschool establishments (Inicial):

345 Jardín maternal
15033 Jardín de infantes (Kindergarten)
2348 Both cycles

22227 Primary schools (Primaria):

7327 with a seven year cycle
14900 with a six year cycle

13412 Secondary (Secundaria):

4888 providing only Ciclo Básico (basic secondary education)
1294 providing only Ciclo Orientado (upper secondary)
7230 providing both Ciclo Básico and Ciclo Orientado

Approximately 25% of Argentinian children attend private schools. Of those, some 63% attend a private school managed by the Catholic Church, and the rest attend non-religious schools. Many private schools follow the European system or the American school system and a few follow the American school calendar (from September to June, with breaks at Christmas and Easter in addition to the long summer holiday) as well.

The Ministry of Education designs the curriculum and standards that all schools in Argentina must meet in order to be accredited, so there are no great variations in core content taught in the public versus the private system. However, private schools are given leeway to add and adapt courses to fit their philosophy and framework, and private schools generally offer better facilities and smaller class sizes because of their fee-based nature. In fact, they can be very expensive. One of the most popular American-style schools located in Buenos Aires, called Lincoln, costs between $10,000 (Kindergarten) and $16,000 (high school) per year.

Information for 2008 from Ministry of Education and Guiding you Abroad

Further and Higher education in Argentina

Universities in Argentina

NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES

PROVINCIAL UNIVERSITIES

UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE ENTRE RÍOS

PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES

STATE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTES

PRIVATE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTES

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY

UNIVERSIDAD DE BOLOGNA

INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

(FLACSO) FACULTAD LATINOAMERICANA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES

Sourced from: http://www.me.gov.ar (Spanish) (also in PDF)

Polytechnics in Argentina

Colleges in Argentina

There are 2129 'Superior no universitaria' (non-university colleges) providing tertiary education:

572 providing teacher training only
850 providing vocational training only
639 providing both teacher training and vocational training
68 providing general tertiary education

Education reform

Schools

Post-secondary

The Argentine university reform of 1918 was a general modernisation of the universities, especially tending towards democratisation, brought about by student activism about the topics The demands of the students can be summarized in four or five main topics: university autonomy, co-government, scientific modernisation, tuition and secular education. The events started in Córdoba and spread to the rest of Argentina, and then through much of Latin America.

Sourced from Wikipedia's page on University reform in Argentina.

Administration and finance

The State, the provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires are responsible for planning, organizing, supervising and financing the national education system, ensuring access to education at all levels and modalities, creating and managing state-run educational establishments. In turn, the national state creates and funds the National Universities.

Schools

Post-secondary

Argentina maintains a network of national universities that are financed by the Ministerio de Educación de la Nación and therefore tuition-free, since 1946. Private and parochial universities are also abundantly present, but their cost often reserves them only to more affluent students, and they enroll about a sixth of the collegiate student body. In all, over 1.5 million students attend institutions of higher learning in Argentina annually (roughly half the population of college age).

Adapted from Education in Argentina

Quality assurance

Dirección Nacional de Información y Evaluación de la Calidad Educativa] DiNIECE) is a department of the Ministry, responsible for quality assurance across all non-university sectors of education.

Schools

Post-secondary

Under the ministry, the Dirección Nacional de Gestión Universitaria (National Bureau of University Management) is responsible for the following actions:

- Coordinate the process of creation, modification and deletion of Private Universities Academic units or less, and the licensing procedures and curriculum in connection with the CONEAU which is the Comisión Nacional de Evaluación y Acreditación Universitaria (National Commission for University Evaluation and Accreditation)).

- Understanding the regulation, monitoring and control of the processes of creation, modification and deletion of Private Universities Academic Units or less and in processing the update curricula in connection with the CONEAU.

- Provide technical assistance in their areas of responsibility to the institutions that require it.

- Develop proposals for minimum hourly charges, core curriculum and standards of professional practice intensity in the careers concerned.

- Propose criteria for national validity of academic degrees and titles and understood in its application.

- To perform the duties attached to the Technical Secretariat of the Council of Universities.

Its national director is Mr. Jorge STEIM.

The ministry's web site is at http://www.me.gov.ar/spu/dngu/ (Official web site, Spanish)

Information society

ICT in education initiatives

DiNIECE

Training Plan: Virtual Campus

The National Information and Evaluation of Educational Quality (DiNIECE) under the Undersecretary for Educational Planning, is the unit of the Ministry of Education main mission is to provide quality and timely information for planning, management and evaluation of educational policy and facilitating access to public information in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations for Access to Public Information established by Decree 1172/03.

In this context, the plan is designed to train the DINIECE in order to provide theoretical and methodological update management teams, supervisors, teachers, professionals and technicians of the jurisdictions of the country in relation to the production and analysis information regarding different aspects of the national education system, aimed at improving quality and equity.

- Proposed Training -

The training proposal, through the virtual campus, space instrumentation aimed at updating and sharing the different profiles that work in the educational system of jurisdictions. From an annual supply of courses, forums and various training activities through the virtual mode, accompanied by a tutorial system updates are offered on topics related to the valuation of the quality of education, educational research and statistical information among the most important of which are oriented to the profiles technicians, professionals, managers and teachers. These activities, some are custom designed at the request of the jurisdictions, according to their own needs.

This approach promotes the democratization of content that are working in the DINIECE and allows greater coordination with the provinces, making it possible to integrate those who are geographically distant. Thus, it is possible to reach a large number of participants and socialize different productions in favor of an education policy based on quality, social inclusion and academic excellence.

Methodologically in activities that require it, combines virtual instances trying to consolidate classroom teaching interaction, while greater integration between the provincial and the Ministry of Education.

General Purpose

Exchange, training and updating in the analysis of qualitative and quantitative information from the education sector with the aim of establishing a relationship between the different areas and teams are responsible for the survey of information and dealing with labor-management facilities the state sector.

Specific objectives:

   Promote the exchange of knowledge and educational experiences.
   Facilitating the acquisition of knowledge and skills required for the treatment of various information resources in the area of public policy management.
   Contribute to the formation and transfer of knowledge, methodologies and tools to the provincial
   Strengthen the Federal Network of Educational Information.

Recipients:

Professionals, technicians, teaching teams, managers, supervisors selected by each jurisdiction to participate in the various instances of updating and training.

Requirements:

   Internet access and enable an e-mail.
   Endorsed by the heads of national jurisdiction.

Virtual initiatives in schools

Virtual initiatives in post-secondary education

The ColegioVirtual.org directory gives a full list of online courses and virtual campuses for higher education and professional training in the Buenos Aires area.

Universidad Virtual de Quilmes

The Universidad Virtual de Quilmes (Virtual University of Quilmes):

The Quilmes Virtual University Program (Program UVQ) is the Internet's educational proposal of the National University of Quilmes. This is a non-face education initiative that uses integrated software system (Virtual Campus) as the means and environment for the implementation of its proposals for undergraduate and postgraduate training.

The first virtual classroom was opened in March 1999, being the pioneer Argentina UNQ university in pursuing these projects.

Relevant information: http://www.unq.edu.ar/layout/redirect.jsp?idSection=1025 (Spanish)

Distance Learning

Projects run programs or in the form of distance education are presented for the first time, in order to gain official recognition and the resulting national validity at the level of university education both public and private, national, provincial and international.

Relevant information:

http://www.me.gov.ar/spu/dngu/html/dngu_-_educacion_a_distancia.html (Spanish)
http://www.me.gov.ar/spu/Servicios/Autoridades_Universitarias/autoridades_universitarias.html (Spanish), (also in PDF)

Address: Distance Education Unit Abroad Av Belgrano 1370 Piso 12 [1000] Capital Federal Ph: [011] 4382-4146 Fax: [011] 4382-4146 Director Graduate Griselda Beatriz Ascheri consultasuede@eude.edu.ar

Distance Education Program at the National University of Cordoba:

http://campusmoodle.proed.unc.edu.ar/index.php?lang=en_utf8: in this page they are listing the courses they offer. (Spanish-English)]
http://www.unc.edu.ar/academicas/PROED (Spanish): the academic units that want to push the distance mode and / or integrate new technologies into their educational proposals may request through the PROED advice, training and production support of the pedagogical, organizational, technological and communications.

UBA XXI, Universidad de Buenos Aires: http://www.uba.ar/academicos/uba21/ (Spanish)

UNED: http://www.uned.es/webuned/areasgen/info/english10.htm (English). This is a university from Spain, quite popular among other virtual universities in Argentina.

Catholic University of Salta: http://www.ucasal.net/sead/index.htm (Spanish)

e-Learning

EDUTIC: "Our Chamber brings together organizations working in distance education and virtual training outside the country. The e-learning companies, consulting firms and organizations working with virtual training and educational institutions wishing to join can contact us directly to participate in EDUTIC. Additionally, we have a series of workspaces and access to information and events for all professionals in the area interested in participating."

http://www.edutic.org.ar/ (Spanish)

Fedra: an institution which is conceived, born and developed in order to serve the Ongoing Formation of professionals and workers, taking into account the implementation of high impact educational methodologies. This seeks to adapt the use of different technologies to produce materials that allow users to meet labor market needs and professional. Began its activities on 7 June 1993 and comes from the awareness of educational and cultural reality in crisis, this phenomenon is observed in Argentina and throughout America.

http://www.fedra.org.ar/ (Spanish)

ARIU: in summary the ARIU objectives are: to provide connectivity services to national and international partner universities, promoting the integration of information technology in higher education through dissemination and training, promote the development of collaborative projects between the universities for the use of information technologies, to develop services related to information technologies that enhance the activities of the university system; generate resources that facilitate the financing of the RIU (Red de Interconexión Universitaria, University Interconnection Network) taking advantage of the university system.

http://www.riu.edu.ar/index.html (Spanish)

Interesting Programmes

Lessons learnt

References

Wikipedia's page on Argentina
Wikipedia's page on Argentina > Education and Education in Argentina
Ministerio de Educación de la Nación (Ministry of National Education)
http://www.me.gov.ar (Spanish) (also in PDF)
Wikipedia's page on University reform in Argentina
CONEAU
http://www.me.gov.ar/spu/dngu/html/dngu_-_educacion_a_distancia.html (Spanish)
http://www.me.gov.ar/spu/Servicios/Autoridades_Universitarias/autoridades_universitarias.html (Spanish), (also in # # PDF)

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Argentina in a nutshell

Education in Argentina

Schools in Argentina

Further and Higher education in Argentina

Universities in Argentina

Polytechnics in Argentina

Colleges in Argentina

Education reform

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Post-secondary

Administration and finance

Schools

Post-secondary

Quality assurance

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Post-secondary

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Revision as of 15:36, 15 August 2011

Partners and experts situated in Argentina

Argentina in a nutshell

Education in Argentina

Schools in Argentina

Further and Higher education in Argentina

Universities in Argentina

Polytechnics in Argentina

Colleges in Argentina

Education reform

Schools

Post-secondary

Administration and finance

Schools

Post-secondary

Quality assurance

Schools

Post-secondary

Information society

ICT in education initiatives

Virtual initiatives in schools

Virtual initiatives in post-secondary education

Distance Learning

e-Learning

Interesting Programmes

Lessons learnt

References

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