Africa-Press – Cape verde. The University of Santiago (US), in Santa Catarina, started the academic year this Monday, 9th, with a new training offer at undergraduate level and with a focus on continuing existing and master’s courses.
University of Santiago starts academic year 2023/2024 with a new course and invests in the continuity of existing ones. The information was provided to Inforpress by the head of the Department of Educational Sciences, Philosophy and Literature (DCEFL), Luís Rodrigues, on the sidelines of the freshmen reception ceremony, held simultaneously at the US Campuses in Bolanha, in Assomada, and Praia, as part of the start of the new academic year at that institution, which took place today.
During the “freshman reception week” a series of activities will be held, with emphasis on open doors, conferences, musical entertainment and training.
“For this year we only have one new course, in terms of training offerings, which is a degree course in Civil Engineering (…). Furthermore, it is the continuation of the investments that were already underway, in which we maintain a very diversified investment of 14 undergraduate courses and eight more master’s courses”, said the academic.
Regarding the degree course in Civil Engineering, the academic recalled that it had been being prepared for several years and that it only received approval from the Higher Education Regulatory Agency (ARES) for its opening in this academic year 2023/2024.
Just like this “new bet” by US, a degree course in Civil Engineering, for this new academic year, according to Luís Rodrigues, this private higher education institution expects that all courses, both undergraduate and master’s, may have candidates to open.
However, it highlighted growth in terms of student numbers compared to previous years, without, however, providing a concrete number, especially as registrations and enrollments are still ongoing.
“We cannot yet guarantee that all courses will be able to open, but the signs are encouraging that this could happen”, said the head of DCEFL
In addition to teaching (degree and master’s degree), the University of Santiago also has the pillars of research and extensions, which it considered to be “three essential pillars” from which the US “will not give up”, arguing that without these “three major” pillars it would never be a university.
In the extension pillar, Luís Rodrigues said that they want to resume with “great strength” what has always been ‘ex-libris’, referring to the US Communities and Archipelago Routes projects.
And also two international conferences in November and celebration of the 15th anniversary of this private higher education institution, created in November 2008.
Regarding the research pillar, which according to him continues to be the “poor relative” of Higher Education in Cape Verde, he said that the US, through the Institute of Research and Studies for Development (IPED), has had several new scientific research projects, and They are also associated with international research networks that have allowed them to produce several scientific publications.
“Scientific research is a challenge. But, higher education [in Cape Verde] has had tremendous achievements in these two decades, but it is certainly also a very young journey, so to speak, and there is still much more to achieve”, observed Luís Rodrigues.
US has 14 degree courses in Education Sciences, Law, Nursing, Computer Engineering, Civil Engineering, English Studies, Business Management, Human Resources Management, Journalism and Business Communication, Marketing and Multimedia, Nutrition and Food Quality, Relations Public and Business Communication, Hospitality and Tourism Management and Social and Organizational Psychology.
And eight master’s degrees in Business Sciences, Business and Labor Law, Human Resources Management, Pedagogy, Public Policies and Local Development, Portuguese as a Second Language and Mental and Community Health.
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