The process is part of the new regulations established by Law 20.903 of the Teaching Professional Development System.

Pedagogy students had four days to take the National Diagnostic Evaluation (END), a mandatory requirement that they must meet to obtain the professional title. Although the results do not qualify you to carry out your work as a teacher, they are relevant for the school by revealing referential information about the curricular contents.

For this reason, the purpose of the END is to collect diagnostic information on the training processes of pedagogy programs, which serves both the training universities and the Ministry of Education.

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The third year student in Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education, Paola Vega, highlighted the importance of this test for her initial training. “This evaluation allowed me to know everything I have learned over the course of my degree and I consider that each of the topics was very relevant, because they are the ones that we have reviewed and now I can put them into practice and be aware of everything that I have learned. Furthermore, I consider that it is necessary to do it especially at this point in the degree, because it has a set of learnings from everything we see from the first year to today,” she noted.

Her colleague Francisca Álvarez has a similar opinion, who stated that “this process was very interesting and gave me a lot, because through the evaluation I saw the shortcomings and strengths that I have, which will help me to self-evaluate and improve.”

Added to these comments is the opinion of student Consuelo Becerra, who stated that “the evaluation allowed me to visualize everything we have learned during the degree and I personally took the test very motivated and I really liked it because it helped me realize everything. what have we learned. I feel that it is very important because it allowed us in some way to provide feedback and see our process throughout the entire race.”

It should be noted that those students who did not attend the END submission within the corresponding deadlines must present their justification before January 2, 2018. The following justifications with certification or supporting document are accepted:

• Students who are in their pre-natal or post-natal period.
• Students who are seriously ill.
• Serious illness or death of a direct family member of the student.
• Students who are traveling on the date of the evaluation and who have tickets issued prior to November 13, 2017.
• Students who have returned to their cities of origin after the end of the academic period and cannot travel to the city where their initial training program is taught to take the evaluation.

The justifications must be sent to the Secretary of the Ped School. in ULS History and Geography.

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Several careers benefited from the workshop, including Pedagogy in History and Geography, Law, Mechanical Execution Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Civil Engineering.

With the objective of providing new tools and strengthening the skills of students studying different careers at the University of La Serena, the Graduate Monitoring Office carried out “Coaching for job placement” workshops throughout 2017. those that seek to publicize guidelines to face the moment of insertion into the labor field.

These courses, taught by the labor psychologist of the Graduate Monitoring Office, bring together a group of students and they are taught how to prepare for possible calls for interviews, as well as how to best write CVs, the first filter that new professionals must pass when entering the labor field in their area.

Students who benefit from the workshop have the opportunity to learn about and apply cases, where the final objective is to show them how they should overcome the obstacles that they generate, for example, facing a job interview. Although these students are still in the development stage, the Office dependent on the Directorate of Institutional Studies and Planning actively prepares the students and motivates them to be aware of the development of social skills.

In addition to group workshops for job placement, the OSE team of professionals frequently organizes meetings, where students can receive individual training in the areas mentioned above, job offers, and leisure and entertainment activities.

Students who are interested in receiving training and learning more about the work of the Graduate Monitoring Office, as well as academics and program heads, can contact and schedule interviews with the person in charge to coordinate activities with professionals in the area.

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Through the collaborative project between UCLA and ULS, Samba-Amber Array, a flux magnetometer has been installed at the Juan Soldado Center for Space Studies, and a study of geomagnetic activity has begun for the months of August and September 2015. prior to the earthquake that occurred on September 16 of that year.

The Space and Atmospheric Physics Group of the University of La Serena, made up of Pedro Vega, Luis Tamblay, Julio Marín, Fernando Cuturrufo, Ignacio Salfate, Geraldo Pulgar and Juan Lazzus, is carrying out a study related to the application of electromagnetic methods associated with precursors of seismic events, which corresponds to a new line of research in development in the area of ​​earthquake-electromagnetic coupling.

The professionals explained that electromagnetic precursors on a short time scale provide new possibilities for the study and prediction of seismic events. The frequency band of ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves between 0.01 - 1 [Hz] is considered one of the most promising in the search for seismic processes, focused on earthquakes. These pre-seismic anomalies in the ULF frequency band, occurring before earthquakes with magnitudes between 6 and 8, have been recorded at distances of the order of a few hundred kilometers (Rikitake T., - 1987), with respect to the epicenter, and one week to one month before the main seismic event.

“Although the number of ULF events is limited, compelling cases of ULF geomagnetic anomalies (Gokhberg et. al. - 1983), associated with earthquakes, have gradually increased through the use of more sophisticated signal processing methodologies. Theoretically, it has been proposed that the origin of the electromagnetic changes of the ULF would be electrokinetic effects (Hayakawa, M., - 1999), induction effects (Brady, B. - 1986), and charge separation (Hayakawa, M., and Fujinawa, Y. -1994), during the opening in micro-cracks. However, none of the current theories can be completely adopted, due to the high uncertainty in the behavior of parameters of the Earth's crust during cracking processes," they stated.

Through the collaborative project between UCLA and ULS, Samba-Amber Array, a flux magnetometer has been installed at the Juan Soldado Space Studies Center, La Serena Norte, and a study of geomagnetic activity has begun for the months of August and September 2015, prior to the earthquake that occurred on September 16 of the same year, measuring 8.4 in magnitude with a hypocenter 37 km NW (North-West) of Los Vilos. According to data from www.sismología.cl, on August 11, three earthquakes of moderate magnitude between 3.2 and 3.8 were recorded with hypocenters 37 km NW and 38 km SW (South-West) of Los Vilos, and 19 km north NOT from Punitaqui. On August 12, another earthquake of 5.3 magnitude was recorded and 22 km NW of Los Vilos.

The data provided by the magnetometer on the August days indicated above, applying the empirical decomposition (EMD) and Hilbert transform method, show that this seismic activity could be related to surface geomagnetic anomalies, which contain a minority component of the environment terrestrial space, low intensity magnetic substorm with associated parameters in relatively still time.

The main observations show a significant decrease in the geomagnetic intensity of the horizontal components, North-South and East-West, during August 11. Associated with the above, it is also observed how the first mode (EMD), with frequencies of the Pc1 type (Magnetic pulsations between 100-500 mHz), shows a pulse of defined and characteristic amplitude on the background of the signal, mainly in the horizontal components. .

“The installation of an ionosonde, in collaboration with Geophysics of the University of Concepción, will allow us to continue advancing in the understanding of this type of natural phenomenon and its associates, of high regional and national priority,” they concluded.

The Almagro neighborhood is one of the oldest in Chile and has a high heritage value.

As part of the completion activities of the Architectural Drawing subject, taught by the academic, arch. Cristian Gordon Avendaño, the first-year students of the ULS Architecture program, set up an exhibition with their work at the School of Architecture. The event was part of a joint work between the students and the community of the Almagro neighborhood of La Serena, which took place during the second semester of 2017.

The Almagro neighborhood is one of the oldest in Chile and has a high heritage value, because it is relevant to highlight its traditional architecture through the technical record of its buildings, many of them made of adobe and whose inhabitants do not have plans. their homes.

During the month of September, the project of providing information feedback to the students of the course and the inhabitants was presented to the neighborhood community, through Irene Machuca, where each one fulfilled a fundamental function: the students would make a planimetric survey of homes and the residents of the neighborhood would expose part of the history of these properties, obtaining mutual benefit.

A dozen neighbors were willing to open the doors of their houses to allow the work of the students, who created architectural sketches, plans, sections and elevations, in a work that lasted throughout the month of October.

At the closing event, held at the end of the semester, the students prepared an exhibition at the University to which the neighbors who were part of the process were invited. All the technical information prepared by the students was delivered to the residents of the Almagro neighborhood, in order to have the plans of their houses.

On this occasion, the neighbors praised the work carried out by the future professionals who are imbued with reality and heritage, doing things with love and patience, highlighting the rigor and good performance when visiting their homes, evidencing complex work. . They also valued the added value that is given to their property when it is drawn and has technical information.

Nancy Olivares, neighbor and former director of the Ignacio Carrera Pinto High School, stressed that it is a perfect instance for young people to become aware of the history of a neighborhood and its heritage.

The projection of the work will be formalized in the month of March with the signing of a collaboration agreement between the University of La Serena and the Judiciary of San Juan, and in which the Public Ministry and the Public Criminal Defender's Office of the Region of Coquimbo.

With the presence of the Rector of the University of La Serena, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Dr. Luperfina Rojas, the Regional Defender Inés Rojas, the Director of Casa Chile in San Juan, Luis Enrique Valdebenito, the Director of the Law program of the study house, lawyer Germán Solís, academic authorities and the complete delegation of judges, prosecutors and defenders of the Province of San Juan, the closing of the day of theoretical-practical advice was held that the Law program of the ULS organized the Judicial Branch of the Province of San Juan, Argentina, within the framework of a joint strategic work of Linkage with the Environment carried out by the house of higher education.

This alliance will allow the University of La Serena to provide prosecutors, defenders and other relevant actors in the San Juan criminal process with relevant information about the Chilean criminal procedure and what has been its practical application in the Coquimbo Region, this because In the Province of San Juan, they have begun to implement this procedure initially in flagrante delicto crimes.

The Secretary of the Court of the Province of San Juan, Javier Vera, greatly valued this alliance between both institutions, pointing out that “all the experiences reported during our stay in La Serena will allow us to enrich the legal work, especially during the hearings.” .

For his part, the Rector of the ULS, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, expressed that this first approach with the Judiciary of San Juan is very relevant, since “it allows us to share the experience since 2000 of our academics who today are part of the law career.” Likewise, he indicated that “we hope to further strengthen this alliance with the signing of a collaboration agreement between the University of La Serena, through its Law degree, and the Judiciary of San Juan, which will allow continuity over time to this work together, along with specifying the Linkage with the Environment policies defined by our institution and that will allow us to strengthen academic, research and teaching work.”

In turn, the Dean of the FACSE, Dr. Luperfina Rojas, explained that this alliance “is another example of our integration with the Province of San Juan, which adds to the work carried out for more than 10 years with the National University of San Juan, Argentina, within the framework of the Linkage with the Environment processes carried out by our Faculty.”

The academic from the UTEM School of Design, Marcelo Rodríguez, and the Director of the Peñalolén Cultural Corporation, Gladys Sandoval, presented themselves.

The Metropolitan Technological University received representatives from the different State Universities at the First Art, Culture and Heritage Network Colloquium of the Consortium of State Universities of Chile (CUECH).

The day allowed attendees to talk about different topics, based on three lines of work explained by the board member, Eduardo Castro, representative of the University of Los Lagos.

“This colloquium is a preliminary exercise to reflect on these three dimensions that the network places, art, culture and heritage, and we have precisely put four panels, the first has to do with institutionality, culture of the State and the relationship that state universities have with that institutionality. The second fact has to do with the need to reflect on a new cultural and national management model, especially because university governance today involves changes as a result of the evolution that university systems are having in the world. And the third thing is to establish a relationship between artistic explanation, cultural extension and connection with the environment, areas that have degrees of approximation that today stress and make management in this area more complex,” he noted.

The Director of the CUECH Network Framework Agreement Project, Mónica Quiroz, welcomed the colloquium, indicating that “we are at the right time for what we can do as state university systems. That allows us precisely today to discuss, agree, and disagree also from diversity. We will have a day of institutional projections, also of view, of how we insert ourselves in that organizational process, thinking that we are within a paradigm shift not only in terms of saying that it is a state university, but also how we conceive management within the universities. “This implies that the area of ​​culture and heritage also occupy a strategic place in the policy of constituting how we see the university.”

Among the speakers of this day, the participation of the universities themselves and the generation of external links with the community were considered. For this reason, the academic from the UTEM School of Design, Marcelo Rodríguez, who has specialized in heritage and pointed out the need to seek to answer, for example, about the role of the university and for whom culture is worked, presented himself; and the Director of the Peñalolén Cultural Corporation, Gladys Sandoval.

The person in charge of the Cultural Development Directorate of the UTEM, Hernán León González, explained that the initiative was born after the three milestones that the CUECH Art and Culture Network had, “which was the simultaneous film, the possibility of editing a book and the joint Choral Meeting of the Macro South Zone, in this way we come together to reflect, because there are many ideas, projects of what we want to achieve. Now it is important to listen to each other and interact both with civil society and with the perspective of academia. This was the first internal instance and from this a document will be generated and different participation instances will be formed.”

Of the representatives of the universities that participated in the colloquium, Carlos Poblete, from the University of O'Higgins, explained that for this university "one of the most interesting things has been realizing that we not only relate to a territory, but we also relate to a community that shares the territory, that are diverse and that are communities that recognize different inequalities. There is an element that for us is key in this initial awareness, we are just beginning, we have only one year, and that is that along with promoting dissemination and creation, we must also promote critical reflection on the condition, the contexts and the way in which creation and dissemination are being carried out.”

Source: UTEM Communications