ALBA to establish regional net of universities

Caribbean students are likely to benefit from a decision by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) to establish a regional net of universities for member countries, according to a report on www.gleanerextra.com.



Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Honduras, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Nicaragua and Venezuela are members of ALBA, which Caracas has been promoting as the alternative to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).



A report in the Cuban news agency, Prensa Latina, said experts from Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela have endorsed the constitution for the proposed network.



It said the regional project was ratified at the first meeting of the ALBA-Education Training Groups and that the meeting here revised the agreements reached during the sixth Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State in Venezuela and of the second ALBA Education Workshop in Nicaragua.



The projection includes the creation of a common programme for the teaching of community integral medicine, education and energy.



“The idea is that the member countries incorporate to the development of the programmes permitting the academic mobility and the development of common curricula for the countries, among other actions,” the report said.



It quoted Edgardo Ramirez, director of International Cooperation, as saying the meeting considered that UNIALBA should be a net for the participation of students, educational, investigators, workers and productive sectors in the design of investigation lines.



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