New academic collaborations with the Government of Ecuador
The Minister of Education of the Republic of Ecuador, Augusto Espinosa, met the Rector of the University of Barcelona, Dídac Ramírez, the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Roser Boix, and Professor Joaquim Prats, from the Department of Teaching and Learning of Social Science, to work on common projects in the field of education. Particularly, they want to set an official master degree on Secondary School Teacher Training, with the participation of the University of Barcelona, the Universidad Nacional de Educación of Ecuador (UNAE) and the Ministry of Education of Ecuador. The masterʼs degree is expected to gather more than 500 students.
The Minister of Education of the Republic of Ecuador, Augusto Espinosa, met the Rector of the University of Barcelona, Dídac Ramírez, the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Roser Boix, and Professor Joaquim Prats, from the Department of Teaching and Learning of Social Science, to work on common projects in the field of education. Particularly, they want to set an official master degree on Secondary School Teacher Training, with the participation of the University of Barcelona, the Universidad Nacional de Educación of Ecuador (UNAE) and the Ministry of Education of Ecuador. The masterʼs degree is expected to gather more than 500 students.
This initiative continues the experience from the academic year 2014-2015 at the Faculty of Education of the University of Barcelona with a masterʼs degree on Secondary School Teacher Training in Ecuador and postgraduate studies on Early Childhood Education, followed by more than 800 students. Joaquim Prats said that the good evaluation that the Ecuadorian Government is making out of this collaboration with the UB shows that they now want to go on with new projects.