The institution, which expects to have about 3,000 students by 2020, currently has more than 100 graduates, he added.
UTEC disseminated its management report in a conference entitled "Five years of UTEC: what have we done and where are we going? The activity, held on Wednesday 6 at the headquarters of the Regional Technological Institute of Durazno, was attended by the counselor of the educational institution, Rodolfo Silveira, the director of Decentralization of the Office of Planning and Budget, Pedro Apezteguía, the head of Planning of that agency, Fernando Isabella, and the departmental mayor, Carmelo Vidalín.
According to the information presented, since 2016 UTEC offers four different levels of training: two undergraduate (technician and technologist) and two graduate (bachelor's degree and engineering).
Some of these careers correspond to long-standing training demands and others to newer technologies. In all cases, careers were designed in line with state policies and the needs of the productive sector, said the authorities.
Last year, the university offered a total of 11 degrees, two of which were dual degrees (Logistics Engineering and Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology), bringing the total number of degrees offered to 13.
That same year, it registered an important growth and deconcentration of the educational offer with the creation of five new careers: Technologist in Biomedical Engineering; Technologist in Jazz and Creative Music; Engineering in Logistics; Engineering in Irrigation Systems; Drainage and Effluent Management; and Technologist in Industrial Mechatronics Engineering. In addition to this, UTEC has also opened in the departments of Soriano and Rivera.
The process of growth in the educational offer was accompanied by an increase in enrollment. The 493 new students enrolled in 2017 represented a quantitative growth of more than double compared to 2016. At the same time, this figure is 11 times higher than in 2014, when the courses were first offered. Likewise, the number of graduates has reached a total of 100 people so far.
UTEC currently has 1,373 students distributed in 11 careers, in addition to the 354 students of the Computer Technologist in the branches of Maldonado, San José and Paysandú, and the Chemical Technologist taught in conjunction with the University of the Republic (Udelar) and the Council of Professional Technical Education-University of Labor of Uruguay.
Ninety-three percent of these UTEC students are the first person in their family to have access to university education. "This implies social inclusion, possibilities, opportunities, it is not a minor fact," said the counselor Rodolfo Silveira, in an interview with the Secretariat of Institutional Communication.
UTEC's student body comes from 83 localities in all departments of Uruguay. These figures show the gradual growth of enrollment in line with the commitment to reach the goal of 3,000 students by 2020, said the authorities.
"The Regional Technical Institute of Durazno is an expression of a decentralization policy that implies that things happen in the territory, where the people are. This is possible because of a long-term development policy and because we were able to put in order a set of accounts that allow us to finance ventures like this (...) for a future that requires trained people," said the director of Decentralization, Pedro Apezteguía.
Source: Presidency
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