Argentina

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Argentina in a nutshell

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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 after Brazil 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.

The country is currently classified as an Upper-Middle Income Country or as a secondary emerging market by the World Bank. A recognised middle power, Argentina is Latin America's third-largest economy. Within Latin America, Argentina has the fifth highest nominal GDP per capita and the highest in purchasing power terms. Argentina is a founding member of the United Nations, Mercosur, the Union of South American Nations, the OEI, the World Bank Group and the World Trade Organization, and is one of the G-15 and G-20 major economies.

The Argentine Constitution of 1853 mandates a separation of powers into executive, legislative, and judicial branches at the national and provincial level. The political framework is a federal representative democratic republic, in which the President is both head of state and head of government, complemented by a pluriform multi-party system.

Executive power resides in the President and the Cabinet. The President and Vice President are directly elected to four-year terms and are limited to two terms. Cabinet ministers are appointed by the President and are not subject to legislative ratification. The current President is Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, with Julio Cobos as Vice President.

Legislative power is vested in the bicameral National Congress, comprising a 72-member Senate and a 257-member Chamber of Deputies. Senators serve six-year terms, with one-third standing for re-election every two years. Members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected to four-year terms by a proportional representation system, with half of the members standing for re-election every two years. A third of the candidates presented by the parties must be women.

The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. The Supreme Court has seven members appointed by the President in consultation with the Senate. The judges of all the other courts are appointed by the Council of Magistrates of the Nation, a secretariat composed of representatives of judges, lawyers, the Congress and the executive.

Though declared the capital in 1853, Buenos Aires did not become the official Capital until 1880. The 1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitution included a limited form of devolution to Buenos Aires. The national government reserved control of the Argentine Federal Police (the federally administered city force), the Port of Buenos Aires, and other faculties, however.

Argentina is divided into twenty-three provinces (provincias; singular provincia) and one Autonomous City. Buenos Aires Province is divided into 134 partidos, while the remaining Provinces are divided into 376 departments (departamentos). Departments and Partidos are further subdivided into municipalities or districts. With the exception of Buenos Aires Province, the nation's provinces have chosen in recent years to enter into treaties with other provinces, forming four federated regions aimed at fostering economic integration and development: Center Region, Patagonic Region, New Cuyo Region, and the Argentine Greater North Region.

Adapted from Wikipedia

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):

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

1. UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES
2. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CATAMARCA
3. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CHILECITO
4. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CORDOBA
5. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO
6. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ENTRE RÍOS
7. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE FORMOSA
8. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE GENERAL SAN MARTÍN
9. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE GENERAL SARMIENTO
10. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE JUJUY
11. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA MATANZA
12. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PAMPA
13. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA AUSTRAL
14. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA SAN JUAN BSCO
15. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA
16. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA RIOJA
17. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LANÚS
18. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LOMAS DE ZAMORA
19. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LUJÁN
20. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA
21. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MISIONES
22. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE QUILMES
23. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE RÍO CUARTO
24. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO
25. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA
26. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN JUAN
27. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS
28. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO
29. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TRES DE FEBRERO
30. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN
31. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE VILLA MARÍA
32. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES
33. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL COMAHUE
34. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL
35. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL NORDESTE
36. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL NOROESTE DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES
37. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR
38. UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLOGICA NACIONAL
39. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE RÍO NEGRO
40. UNIVERSIDAD NACiONAL DEL CHACO AUSTRAL

PROVINCIAL UNIVERSITIES

1. UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE ENTRE RÍOS

PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES

1. UNIVERSIDAD CAECE
2. PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA ARGENTINA
3. UNIVERSIDAD ARGENTINA DE LA EMPRESA
4. UNIVERSIDAD ARGENTINA JOHN F. KENNEDY
5. UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CORDOBA
6. UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CUYO
7. UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE LA PLATA
8. UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE SALTA
9. UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE SANTA FE
10. UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO
11. UNIVERSIDAD DE BELGRANO
12. UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION DEL URUGUAY
13. UNIVERSIDAD DE MENDOZA
14. UNIVERSIDAD DE MORON
15. UNIVERSIDAD DEL ACONCAGUA
16. UNIVERSIDAD DEL MUSEO SOCIAL ARGENTINO
17. UNIVERSIDAD DEL NORTE SANTO TOMAS DE AQUINO
18. UNIVERSIDAD DEL SALVADOR
19. UNIVERSIDAD DE LA MARINA MERCANTE
20. UNIVERSIDAD GASTON DACHARY
21. UNIVERSIDAD JUAN AGUSTIN MAZA
22. UNIVERSIDAD NOTARIAL ARGENTINA
23. UNIVERSIDAD ADVENTISTA DEL PLATA
24. UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL
25. UNIVERSIDAD CHAMPAGNAT
26. UNIVERSIDAD DE CIENCIAS EMPRESARIALES Y SOCIALES
27. UNIVERSIDAD DE PALERMO
28. UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN ANDRES
29. UNIVERSIDAD MAIMONIDES
30. UNIVERSIDAD BLAS PASCAL
31. UNIVERSIDAD TORCUATO DI TELLA
32. UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRATERNIDAD DE AGRUP. SANTO TOMAS DE AQUINO
33. UNIVERSIDAD DE CENTRO EDUCATIVO LATINOAMERICANO
34. UNIVERSIDAD DEL CINE
35. UNIVERSIDAD ATLANTIDA ARGENTINA
36. UNIVERSIDAD DE FLORES
37. UNIVERSIDAD DE LA CUENCA DEL PLATA
38. UNIVERSIDAD DEL CONGRESO
39. UNIVERSIDAD EMPRESARIAL SIGLO 21
40. UNIVERSIDAD ABIERTA INTERAMERICANA
41. UNIVERSIDAD DEL CEMA
42. UNIVERSIDAD FAVALORO
43. UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN PABLO
44. UNIVERSIDAD ISALUD

STATE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTES

1. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE LA POLICIA FEDERAL ARGENTINA
2. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO AERONAUTICO
3. INSTITUTO DE ENSEÑANZA SUPERIOR DEL EJERCITO
4. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO NAVAL
5. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE SEGURIDAD MARÍTIMA
6. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE GENDARMERÍA NACIONAL
7. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO NACIONAL DEL ARTE

PRIVATE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTES

1. ESCUELA UNIVERSITARIA DE TEOLOGÍA
2. INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE BUENOS AIRES
3. INST. UNIVERSITARIO DE CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD FUNDACION H.A BARCELO
4. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO CEMIC
5. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO "ESCUELA SUP. DE ECONOMIA Y ADMINIS. DE EMPRESAS (ESEADE)
6. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO "ESCUELA DE MEDICINA DE HOSPITAL ITALIANO
7. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO ITALIANO DE ROSARIO
8. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO EVANGELICO - ISEDET
9. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO ESCUELA ARGENTINA DE NEGOCIOS
10. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO - IDEA
11. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE SALUD MENTAL DE LA ASOCIACIÓN PSICOANALITICA DE BUENOS AIRES
12. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DEL GRAN ROSARIO

FOREIGN UNIVERSITY

1. UNIVERSIDAD DE BOLOGNA

INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

1. (FLACSO) FACULTAD LATINOAMERICANA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES

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

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

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.

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.

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)

ICT in education initiatives

ORT Virtual Campus offers virtual education at all levels from secundaria ciclo básico to higher education.

DiNIECE, the Ministry of Education department for quality assurance operates a Virtual Campus for internal training in evaluating educational policy, training education managers and teachers and facilitating public access to information. Its stated aims are improving quality and equity.

Its general purpose is 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 HR management in the state sector.

Its specific objectives are:

• Promoting the exchange of knowledge and educational experiences.
• Facilitating the acquisition of knowledge and skills required for analysis of various information resources in the area of ​​public policy management.
• Contributing to the formation and transfer of knowledge, methodologies and tools to provincial centres.
• Strengthening the Federal Network of Educational Information.

Virtual initiatives in schools

El Surco. La Escuela Virtual Primary, secondary and adults - Mendoza Argentina. Website is currently unreachable - this is Facebook page

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

• Universidad del Salvador
• Universidad Maimónides

References

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

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