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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 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.

The Argentine school system consists of an elementary or lower school level lasting six or seven years, and a secondary or high school level lasting between five to six years. In the 1990s, the system was split into different types of high school instruction, called Educacion Secundaria and the Polimodal. Some provinces adopted the Polimodal while others did not. A project in the executive branch to repeal this measure and return to a more traditional secondary level system was approved in 2006

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 2006, including 1.5 million in the nation's 85 universities.

Adapted from Wikipedia 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

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

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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 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.
+The Argentine school system consists of an elementary or lower school level lasting six or seven years, and a secondary or high school level lasting between five to six years. In the 1990s, the system was split into different types of high school instruction, called Educacion Secundaria and the Polimodal. Some provinces adopted the Polimodal while others did not. A project in the executive branch to repeal this measure and return to a more traditional secondary level system was approved in 2006
 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):
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 # 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.
+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.
-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.
+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 2006, including 1.5 million in the nation's 85 universities.
+Adapted from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Argentina Wikipedia]
 '''Adapted''' from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Argentina Education in Argentina]

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Education reform

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Administration and finance

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Post-secondary

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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

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Interesting Programmes

Lessons learnt

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