The Agronomy degree of the University of Granma receives these days the process of external evaluation to ratify its accreditation by experts of the Ministry of Higher Education.

With the category of certified career, the documentation presented on this occasion proposes to rise to the discipline of excellence condition, the highest step to which an educational process of this level can aspire.

Experts from universities of Havana, Guantanamo and Santiago de Cuba carry out the rigorous evaluation that will then be presented to the national accreditation board of the ministry.

Executives of the university of Granma state that, to face this process, actions were intensified to identify the weaknesses pointed out in the previous control, carried out five years ago.

Working committees of the center developed the self-assessment based on a detailed review, surveys of the students of the degree, debates, among other actions.

The Agronomy degree is the oldest of those that corresponds to the agricultural profile in Cuba and one of the top course of studies of the University of Granma since it was founded on December 10, 1976.

To date, the degree has graduated more than four thousand 900 Agronomists in 41 graduations, of them, 136 with specialization in Plant Health and 10 Agronomists specialized in Coffee.
Likewise, 37 Masters in Plant Production, nine in Plant Health, 173 in Agricultural Sciences, 46 in Environmental Management and 53 in Agroecology and Internal Development have been trained.

The career has a stable staff of broad experience with an adequate scientific-technological preparation which, associated with their professional skills, which allow the direction of the educational teaching process in its different methodological levels.

This discipline achieves high social relevance by generating research projects, training professionals and improving actions that provide to the agri-food program of the province and eastern region of Cuba.

 

 


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