The UDA offers new technological careers for young people and artisans from the Austro

After four years of what they considered hard work, the University of Azuay presented nine tech careers that were approved by the Council of Higher Education (CES). Educational programs are expected to offer opportunities to students YOUNG y adults who did not have the opportunity to enter higher education institutions.

The careers were constituted, mainly, through the realities of the ruralism of the Austro, since the aim is that these are attended by people who live in peripheral areas and far from cities.

Technologies in agroecology, dairy processing y turismo rural are some of the academic programs that are part of the careers presented by the institution that last year presented its Bicentennial Campus, in Baños, to offer technological opportunities.

For the academic vice-rector of the UDA, Martha Cobos, it was necessary to create careers that stick to reality from each of the sectors of Azuay. In this link you can review the complete list.

“We have focused on the lack of opportunities for young people. According to statistics from the Senescyt, in 2017 more than 200.000 young people annually did not enter the higher education system, generally young people from rural areas, where due to the lack of opportunities the impact is migration, ”Cobos said.

In addition to giving young people options, the vice-chancellor added that the races are designed so that students develop in their own communities and cantons. That is why the programs will be blended so that participants do not have to mobilize, unless necessary.  

In addition to the careers for young people in rural areas, programs dedicated to artisans. Through the work in which the Inter-American Center for Popular Arts and Crafts participated and promoted (CIDAP) the technologies of ceramics, jewelry and textiles.

The objective is that the techniques and processes that the artisans of the city and the province handle are not lost, but rather become overcrowded in the classrooms.

Scholarships

Educational programs will start in october y they will last between two and two and a half years. The admission process will be the same as that followed to enter the university. Once the degree is applied, students will be able to apply for a scholarship to cover the expenses of the programs.

One of the objectives of the authorities is that the Decentralized Autonomous Governments grant the youth of their communities and cantons. For now, in Nabón an ordinance has already been approved that will deliver scholarships to its population so that they can access this type of technological careers. It is expected that the rest of the areas can follow the same process so that young people have an opportunity to study a technological career that, since 2018, is considered a third-level program.