Chaired by Suzanna Tomassi, increased training specialist from the Division for Enterprise and Commerce, specialists on Panama and its “metropolis of data” – or Ciudad del Saber – showcased the vacation spot to UK institutional representatives.
Tomassi defined {that a} rising quantity of curiosity prompted the need of a webinar to supply institutional representatives for TNE with key details about the nation and its Ciudad del Saber space, situated in Panama Metropolis and echoing the rise of recognition in India’s GIFT Metropolis.
“For the previous 20 to 25 years, we’ve been growing this challenge that goals to rework this former navy base into a global advanced, which now holds worldwide corporations, worldwide universities, analysis centres [and] authorities businesses,” stated David Aguilar Sanchez, enterprise improvement supervisor on the Ciudad del Saber Basis.
“What we attempt to do is – by way of a authorized framework that’s extra pleasant for worldwide universities – appeal to worldwide applications that may complement what we don’t have within the nation,” he additional defined.
It additionally comes as Panama was named as a market with growing outbound scholar mobility in new analysis from EdCo LATAM.
Panama has already attracted quite a few universities in North America to the Ciudad del Saber by way of completely different worldwide and research overseas applications, together with Georgia Institute of Know-how, the College of Pennsylvania, McGill College and Iowa State College.
Balboa Academy – a Spanish language faculty – and Isthmus College, which specialises in structure, are a number of the home campuses already arrange within the space.
Florida State College, which additionally occurs to have a research centre in London, has made a big effect after opening its personal full campus on the positioning – Florida State College-Panama – whose vice rector for educational affairs talked concerning the varied applications and advantages that it was capable of supply home and worldwide college students.
“We offer a US-style training in Latin American context – all our applications are tailor-made after the principle campus; we offer bachelor’s levels and one grasp’s diploma,” defined Alexandra Anyfanti.
It’s a stable basis that gives a chance for progress
Alexandra Anyfanti, FSU-Panama
She famous that the campus was not initially situated within the Ciudad del Saber, as an alternative offering instructional providers to US navy private and their dependents stationed within the navy bases round Panama’s Canal Zone – however ultimately grew to become a founding member of the Ciudad, open first to Panamanian college students and now to college students throughout the area.
Some college students will spend their first yr on the Panama campus earlier than transferring to the principle campus, and the 2 plus two scholarship program for Latin American and Carribean college students sees them full two years of research on the Panama campus, earlier than transferring to the establishment’s predominant campus in Florida on in-state tuition charges.
“This a chance to expertise what it means to attend a full campus. It’s nonetheless near dwelling and it’s nonetheless reasonably priced. It’s nonetheless inside attain. They will commute forwards and backwards, make use of the services as a lot as they like, after which return dwelling, share their expertise,” Anyfanti advised the webinar’s viewers.
Being a member of the Ciudad del Saber, Anyfanti famous, offers an ecosystem of actual “connectivity and engagement”, connecting with so many alternative entities and establishments – and college students have entry to all of these sources.
“It’s a stable basis that gives a chance for progress,” she urged.
