The Universidad Tecnológica (UTEC) has opened pre-enrolment for 11 degree courses in Colonia, Durazno, Paysandú, Río Negro, Rivera and Soriano from Wednesday until 29 December. The courses will start in March 2018.
As academic director Amadeo Sosa Santillán explained to El Observador, "the idea is to train for the work of tomorrow, not to duplicate careers that already exist", because what they are looking for is to add those that are lacking and not to compete with those that already exist.
At the same time, he assured that since 2014, when the first courses began to be taught, the demand has been increasing. There are currently around 800 students, but by 2020, around 2,000 are expected.
Students from "79 localities in the interior of the country go to study at UTEC centres. This is an interesting achievement, since we have begun to reverse the logic of education, since before you had to go to Montevideo to study at university level, and this is changing little by little," said the academic director.
The degree courses available in Colonia are in Food Analysis in Paysandú, Dairy Science and Technology and Dairy Production Systems Management.
Mechatronics Engineering in Río Negro, Jazz and Creative Music Technologist in Soriano; Logistics Engineering in Rivera and Fray Bentos, Information Technology Technician in Río Negro, Biomedical Engineering Technologist in Fray Bentos; Renewable Energy Engineering and Irrigation, Drainage and Effluent Management Systems Engineering in Durazno, and Industrial Mechatronics Technologist in Rivera.
Sosa informed that the careers correspond to the needs that are arising to specialise according to the development of the productive sector. There are three zones (north, centre-south and south-west) in each of which there is a Regional Technological Institute that manages the region's activities.
Those interested can pre-register online by filling out a form. 80 students have registered so far. In the event that the stipulated number of places for each course is exceeded, "a draw will be made before a notary public on 21 February 2018", according to a communiqué issued by UTEC.
The most in-demand degree programme in recent years has been Information Technology, followed by Logistics Engineering, explained Sosa, adding that they are working on the possibility of an agreement with foreign universities so that postgraduate courses can be based in Fray Bentos.
Source: The Observer
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