Universities of Cuenca accredited in Law

He certified career in three alma mater, inspected resources, teachers and student knowledge.

The three universities of the city where the Law course is taught: University of Cuenca, Azuay and Católica de Cuenca received the recognition of suitability and accreditation of these careers, conferred by the Council for the Evaluation, Accreditation and Quality Assurance of the Higher Education (CEAACES), authority responsible for accrediting the quality of university studies.

"Excellence is not a destination but a permanent journey, all the time we must move forward, prepare students and demand teachers," says José Chalco Quezada, dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Azuay.

The "learning environment, infrastructure, knowledge of the students, teachers; the dean highlighted the contribution of his graduates and added that, starting in September they will have a new curriculum that promotes uniformity with what other law schools in the country. For example, strengthen areas such as Environmental Law, Human Rights, among others.

For Jorge Moreno, dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Cuenca, the accreditation involves the acquisition of commitments, such as advancing the master's degrees that prepare in Labor Law and Social Security, Criminal Law and Gender. There are dialogues with other universities in Latin America for academic exchanges.

The faculty has points to solve, for example, the lack of titular professors; As the university is in category A, to fill vacancies must do so through competition with postgraduate juries, universities exclusively of category A, of these there are only three in the country and that creates an inconvenience to make these contests, he explained.

On the side of the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University, for his dean, Ernesto Robalino, has been a hard challenge to meet but that he exceeded even above the required base in the parameters of valuation. In infrastructure, however, they are asked and they need an extensive and integrated university campus, but the economic conditions of the university are not allowed for now.

The accreditation of careers is a process that has taken four years. The accreditation says that we are on the right track, but we must work all the time to achieve excellence, said Pablo Valverde, president of the Provincial Court of Justice.

This honors the profession, of deep connection with the community and contributes to the prestige of its professionals, although at the time of practicing the profession, justice does not always correspond to legal standards, due to the lack of independence of the judicial function, the president said. of the Azuay Bar Association, Carlos Castro.