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07-06-2012, 03:30 PM
Minister of Higher Education Ligia Amada Melo told Listin Diario the country is not ready to offer doctoral programs. Her department has granted scholarships so that thousands of Dominicans may undertake Ph.D and masters programs at universities abroad.
The Ministry of Higher Education has sent 8,470 Dominican students to study abroad. Melo said that including the new students that begin their first fall semester abroad, 10,000 Dominicans will have benefited from the higher learning program, meeting the goal set by President Leonel Fernandez, the program's lead supporter. Of these, 110 Dominicans that have already carried out masters programs abroad are now into their doctoral programs.
Recently, the rector of the local Universidad Iberoamericana (Unibe), Dr. Juan Castanos Guzman advocated for the new administration that starts 16 August to offer the scholarships at local academia. But Melo said that in the Dominican Republic only 2.3% of 13,484 academics have doctoral studies, 40.4% have masters studies. She also said that in the Dominican Republic the number of professors that work full time is very small. She said it still will take the country another six years to form the professors needed to offer the doctoral programs in the country.
In her opinion, while some doctoral programs can be offered here by bringing in the professors from abroad, this has to be limited to careers that do not require lab study.
She said her department has funded some doctoral studies in the country, such as the doctorate in criminal law at the UASD, with professors coming from Spain. Likewise, she said they have backed the Unibe business school programs with Florida International University.
She said her efforts have been dual, backing improvements at local universities improve while at the same time offering scholarships to university professors and students for study abroad, especially at the postgraduate level.
She defended the study abroad programs explaining that those that go abroad live in more developed societies, expand their horizons and return with a broader vision of the global world.
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The Ministry of Higher Education has sent 8,470 Dominican students to study abroad. Melo said that including the new students that begin their first fall semester abroad, 10,000 Dominicans will have benefited from the higher learning program, meeting the goal set by President Leonel Fernandez, the program's lead supporter. Of these, 110 Dominicans that have already carried out masters programs abroad are now into their doctoral programs.
Recently, the rector of the local Universidad Iberoamericana (Unibe), Dr. Juan Castanos Guzman advocated for the new administration that starts 16 August to offer the scholarships at local academia. But Melo said that in the Dominican Republic only 2.3% of 13,484 academics have doctoral studies, 40.4% have masters studies. She also said that in the Dominican Republic the number of professors that work full time is very small. She said it still will take the country another six years to form the professors needed to offer the doctoral programs in the country.
In her opinion, while some doctoral programs can be offered here by bringing in the professors from abroad, this has to be limited to careers that do not require lab study.
She said her department has funded some doctoral studies in the country, such as the doctorate in criminal law at the UASD, with professors coming from Spain. Likewise, she said they have backed the Unibe business school programs with Florida International University.
She said her efforts have been dual, backing improvements at local universities improve while at the same time offering scholarships to university professors and students for study abroad, especially at the postgraduate level.
She defended the study abroad programs explaining that those that go abroad live in more developed societies, expand their horizons and return with a broader vision of the global world.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#3)