They present applications on the Postgraduate and Postgraduate Platform of the U. of La Serena

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The instance is in charge of the Postgraduate and Postgraduate Directorate, and the Information and Computing Center (CICULS).

Another important step in the task of improving processes that allow continued progress in achieving standards for a complex university was taken this week with the presentation of new applications in the Postgraduate and Postgraduate Computer Platform of the University of La Serena.

For this presentation, a meeting was organized to which the highest authorities of the University were summoned, together with the program directors, their coordinators and the secretaries of said sub-units that depend on the Directorate. of Postgraduate and Postgraduate Studies, attached to the Vice-Rector's Office for Research and Postgraduate Studies.

postgraduate platform2This meeting is part of the meetings that will be held periodically with the objective of reporting on the state of progress and the projections that have been proposed for the development of both this Platform and, particularly, the guidelines for the development of the field of postgraduate and postgraduate degrees of the institution.

On the occasion, there was a brief analysis of what had been done, the foundations for addressing other program administration situations, the analysis of proposals to build the curricula of academics and students of the University, and the outline of a way to address the reports. presented to the National Accreditation Commission (CNA), making use of the institutional database.

“The objective of the implementation of this Platform is to support management in the field of postgraduate and postgraduate degrees, with the idea of ​​achieving systematized data and permanent availability of updated information so that the different programs can develop the analyzes they need and their respective applications in the development of their programs. This goes beyond the accreditation of the different programs, we are thinking about accrediting the University in the Postgraduate dimension, as well as in institutional accreditation. It will be up to each of us to collaborate to maintain the database so that at all times it is a reflection of our reality and feedback to the system so that we can obtain the best results and its potential from it," said the Rector of the University of La Serena. , Dr. Nibaldo Avilés Pizarro.

postgraduate platform3For his part, the Director of Postgraduate and Postgraduate Studies, Dr. Jorge Rojas Lobos, thanked those invited for their attendance and emphasized that “the development of this platform still has enormous possibilities for improvement, we have identified what the CNA wants and needs, but We also want to have the essential feedback to highlight the strengths we have. I am certain that the program directors will collaborate with us to make it a useful and effective tool. For this reason, in the month of March, we will have a survey that will allow us to measure a set of variables typical of an investigation to identify topics to be addressed and satisfaction of system users.”