2023-05-16 03:29:00
The Metropolitan University for Education and Work (UMET) celebrated its first decade of operation this Monday, May 15, with an act at its headquarters in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Balvanera, in which the title of doctorate honoris causa was awarded to Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, already Leon Carlos Arslanianjudge who presided over the Chamber that judged the Military Juntas in 1985.
The UMET, known as “the Workers University” and inaugurated on May 16, 2013, it celebrated its tenth anniversary at its headquarters in Sarmiento 2037.
During the act, the title of doctorate honoris causa was awarded to the referents of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto and Buscarita Roa; to the head of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Founding Line, Taty Almeida; and Judge Arslanian.
As they highlighted, “UMET is a unique project in Latin America. It is a university designed by a union organization for workers and their families, and 94% of its students have scholarships from union organizations.”
Its Academic Council is chaired by Nicholas Trottaformer rector of UMET and former Minister of Education, and is made up of representatives of workers and business sectors, including the general secretary of the Single Union of Workers of Rental and Horizontal Buildings (Suterh), Victor Santa Mariapromoter of the project.
In addition, they make up the council Rodolfo Daer of the Food Industry Union, Carlos perez of Trade Workers, Argentine Geneiro of Gastronomic Workers, Victor Carricarte of the Association of Pharmacy Employees, Jose Urtubeybusinessman and industrial leader, Bettina Bulgheroni from Grupo Bridas, Marcelo Figueiras from Laboratorios Richmond and martin cabrales from Café Cabrales.
Throughout its history, UMET managed to unite more than 70 trade union organizations that joined a co-management proposal for understanding higher education as the foundational tool for social transformation, upward social mobility and social justice.
In this sense, they highlighted that the data from this first decade of operation indicate that more than 90% of all graduates -269 with intermediate and undergraduate degrees- have a paid job and almost 60% improved their job position and are linked to the study carried out.
In addition, 84% of the students are the first generation in their family to access a university education and 83.6% of them are workers.
Also, the reality chart of the students shows that 28.7% are fathers or mothers, that 55% of all students are women; 23% reside in Greater Buenos Aires, while the rest live in the City of Buenos Aires; and 7.5% of the total are foreign students.
Currently, the university has six faculties, 16 undergraduate courses, and 2 postgraduate proposals.
Among the careers with the highest registration this year is the degree in Pharmacy, followed by Physical Education and Sports; Computing; Tourism; Labor Relations; Audiovisual Contents; Social comunication; Pedagogy; and Economy, they pointed out.
And they remarked that UMET has the Workers’ Statistical Institute (IET), a research space whose objective is the generation and analysis of relevant socioeconomic information for the labor movement.
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