Argentina

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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 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.

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Argentina education policy

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 and Education in Argentina

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

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.

*CONEAU was established to foster improvements of the university education in Argentina. Its main functions are:

• To evaluate projects submitted by new public and private universities.
  
• To perform external evaluation of university institutions.
  
• To grant accreditation to government regulated undergraduate programs.
  
• To grant accreditation to graduate programs.
  
• To conduct evaluation processes for accreditation of private evaluation and accreditation organizations.
  

Argentina education system

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

Primary education 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

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 this 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.

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Higher education

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).

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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
10. INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO ESCUELA ARGENTINA DE NEGOCIOS
9. 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 - from the file nomina_de_autoridades.pdf)

Higher education reform

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

Virtual Campuses in HE

Interesting Virtual Campus Initiatives

• Universidad Virtual de Quilmes

Virtual Campus

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

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.

Distance Learning

http://www.me.gov.ar/spu/dngu/html/dngu_-_educacion_a_distancia.html (Spanish) PRESENTATION OF PROGRAMS OR RACE UNDER THE DISTANCE EDUCATION MODE

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. http://www.me.gov.ar/spu/Servicios/Autoridades_Universitarias/autoridades_universitarias.html (Spanish)

(From the file nomina_de_autoridades.pdf)

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

http://campusmoodle.proed.unc.edu.ar/index.php?lang=en_utf8 (Spanglish) Distance Education Program at the National University of Cordoba In this page they are listing the courses they offer.

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.

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

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

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

Other

http://www.edutic.org.ar/ (Spanish) 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.fedra.org.ar/ (Spanish) Fedra, is 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.riu.edu.ar/index.html (Spanish) 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.

Interesting Programmes

• Universidad del Salvador
• Universidad Maimónides

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