The University current challenges

It's crazy to think about improving doing more of the same

Einstein

Soon the Venezuelan national universities elect new officers, authorities must be renewed, with another view that has managed to universities for years, leaving large gaps in their real participation in economic, political, social, needed to generate requires changes both the country and get out of a turbulent scenario, insecure, risky, as it currently appears.

Universities can not continue with the same style of leadership, many of them driven by powerful groups, authorities have been entrenched for years preventing surface new leaders, submission of additional schemes, new authorities more current, committed, renovators, true agents of change, backed leadership that allow their plans, programs, actions not only promote the achievement of academic excellence, research, but training, training of professionals to provide the nation, their knowledge, benefiting their development proposals in all disciplines, their professionals to address current challenges, especially before a new government has been called revolutionary and has given way to a socialist ideology to which Venezuela was not used.

It's time to make way for new styles of education, learning, policy makers, academic vision teachers, social commitment, to submit renewal models, proposals that promote the development of all university disciplines used in the training of its professionals. Universities can not in the XXI century and the great challenges of this, docked with the same groups of power, must give way to a new university culture, a generation capable of facing the changes, the challenges and above all, know seize opportunities to rescue the shadow universities where they have carried for years.

Today, more than ever, given the radical changes being raised in the country, resulting from the actions of government, universities can not remain passive, it requires greater participation in economic, political, cultural, educational, constantly express their opinions, views, all those proposals that promote the country as well as its social responsibility role to play. We must keep alive the sense of commitment of public universities to society.

Today more than ever, the authorities, university community must be the guarantors of their autonomy, the capacity that universities have to practice and uphold the full and take our standards, academic and research goals without interference from outside powers, such as not Carolina recalls Scotto.

Scottto notes in this regard, we have to give a strong sense of autonomy, to that already won by legal instruments. Is to use independently, but bold and committed, unselfish and autism, as some academics, without realizing it, we used.

He added that the university has to be more porous, more open, willing to learn from the university and non university, and not used to their own traditions and habits, which are often seen as unique, but in reality they are .

Call for all those participation mechanisms that allow changes once and for all to adapt to new requirements that the Company has knowledge and strive to prevent the university all the institutions of the country to become bureaucratic, often more than normal and what is more worrying dependent on a country's educational system does not work. Caters more to the bureaucracy that has to measure their social impact.

In regard to this concern, someone pointed out, the need to democratize access to education, the incentive nest material, cultural and prestige of being a teacher, form joint plans in education and health, increase workload, equipment and resources , joint schools and scientific institutions, teachers unions make education not capture their own benefit, to revive the taste for study and change the idea that it is difficult, pointless and boring, to promote the culture of work, effort worthwhile and that education is the foundation of progress. The proposed UNESCO Education for all.

It is recalled that the great trust placed in the state as the articulator of educational policies made by Finland, Korea, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland and Australia, among others, were positioned among the best. Students from these countries can analyze data, evaluate viewpoints and arguments communicate accurately. The loss is twofold: the best graduates will go to developed countries that offer them opportunities. Get talent is a global obsession Myopia knowing is knowing that there are better ways to educate and continue the same. The learning experience should convey the joy of learning and new technologies help overcome outmoded models and encourage self-knowledge.

Add Horacio Krell on the need for change, it is considered that education goes beyond teaching. You develop skills and attitudes that link the student with the world. The problem is that they know how to use your brain because you do not know how it works. You have to bring you the know-how of high performance. The cause of the problems often cause. To optimize the brain hardware must be combined with the best software is the intellectual approach and articulate the educational system from which the child is born until he dies, because the child is father to the man. For that we must harmonize the individual intelligence with institutional intelligence. As Nietzsche said, "The methods are the richest man?.

The new authorities should not be involved in rescue Venezuelan university space where you are, forget, as quoted Rebelión. That the University has a place in the city. It represents, no doubt, one of the pieces of which is composed of contemporary society, one of the ingredients required to compose the kind of citizenship with which Western civilization is committed politically, particularly in the context of what might be called the Enlightenment project, something that has been largely neglected in national universities.

In college, we talk, but also speaks from side to side in the city, in every corner of society. The fact that the parts that make up a society to reach agreements, commitments or contracts by word is what makes up that space we call the city, a framework, ultimately, what we call citizenship. However, the specificity of speaking university is that you are interested in and focused on achieving an effect we call truth. The University is the seat of knowledge, and knowledge is nothing but that word has the ability to establish a contract or a commitment to truth and not just with men with other men.

Urge radical changes in university management Venezuelan rescue academic excellence, giving way to research universities have more presence in the national problems and propose solutions that would benefit the country. No one should be rooted in traditionalism where self-interest, the power group predominates over that of the university community in the country.

Venezuela needs a new vision, commitment of the university, more turbulent scenario, changes in where their presence is crucial. Hopefully you pass to a new generation of officers capable of generating much-needed changes to rescue the local university where he is passive, otherwise the consequences will be very disastrous results for higher education.