Executives of the Universidad Industrial de Santander met with delegates from the Governor’s Office of Magdalena with the objective of developing a wide range of dual training programs and analyzing possibilities of alliances in different areas.
“With the Government of Magdalena we have a long-standing agreement that has favored low-income students to support and sustain them on our campus and now we are looking at the possibility of expanding participation with the Government and IES of Magdalena. We are facing the advent of cooperation agreements that will guarantee the right to education of students even from schools in the process of articulation of secondary to higher education, and also with academic programs of the UIS that begin and end in that region of the country,” said Gonzalo Patiño Benavides, director of the Institute of Regional Projection and Distance Education (Ipred).
The UIS has been a reference university in the region with the agreement for the ‘Scholarships for Change’ project, and therefore, at the meeting the delegates presented to the University’s directors the proposal to operate in the sub-regional university campuses of the Government of Magdalena.
“The fact of being able to extend UIS programs generates benefits and development for all Magdalenans. We have had institutional support and we have traced a route of how we will advance with academic offerings to take to the territory in the modality that allows us to do so and to advance in the topic of framework and specific agreements. The idea is that the UIS is there as a university institution because it is an honor for us to have them there and we are pleased with the receptivity we had at the meeting,” said Ingris Padilla Garcia, advisor for the Departmental Education of Higher Education of Magdalena.
After the initial meeting, it is expected that in the future they will jointly analyze the definition of programs, modalities that will be held in Magdalena and the models of agreements that will benefit the community in general.
