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Bolivarian Alliance for the People’s of Our America, ALBA to Create University Network

CUBA, 30 de noviembre de 2009.- Experts from Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela announced on Friday the creation of a university network of the ALBA member nations called UNIALBA.

This Project was ratified during the 1st Meeting of the ALBA-Education Working Group, according to a report from Venezuela’s Higher Education Ministry.

The meeting which wound up on Friday was a follow-up of the agreements of the 6th Extraordinary Heads of State Summit held in Venezuela and the 2nd ALBA Education Workshop held in Nicaragua.

The Project includes the creation of a joint program for Integral Community Medicine and Education, a Masters program for Geo-policy of Hydrocarbons and another for Education.

Venezuela’s Higher Education Deputy Minister Enry Gomez pointed out that the objective of the Project is for an integration of the regional citizens to the social, cultural process and regional production.

The idea is that the ALBa nations incorporate themselves to the development of the programs that will allow academic mobility and the development of common curriculum for each country among other actions, said the Venezuelan official.

Edgardo Ramirez, Director of International Cooperation, considered that UNIALBA must be a network for the participation of students, teachers, researchers, workers and productive sectors in the design of research guidelines.

According to Ramirez, the research must be based in the needs of the peoples and not on the foreign interests far from the satisfaction of the majority.

The ALBA members are Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Honduras, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Nicaragua and Venezuela. (Cubaminrex-RHC)

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