Will the five-year engineering degree survive in Argentina?

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Traditionally the length of the engineering careers has been six or five years in Argentina. Fr om the first degree granted in 1870 the universities adopt ed the scheme of continental Europe, specially taking into account Spain, France and Italy. If five years or ix were necessary, is on what people disagree. But now all the countries in Europe have changed to 3+2 or 4+1 due to the Bologna agreement. And also, the Washington Accord (Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom and United States) confirmed the Bachelor and Master scheme. This leaves most of the Latin-American countries as the only ones with a five-year degree. Several meetings have been held in the initiative Ingenieria para las America s searching for a unified criteria. Argentina belongs to the MERCOSUR, with Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Venezuela as full members and Chile and Bolivia as associated members. Brazil already has a 4+1 scheme. So it is easy to forecast that in less than ten years, an agreement for a 3+2 or 4+1 will be drawn first at MERCOSUR level and after that, extended the whole hemisphere. In Argentina the change is not very popular.Professionals associations are against it a nd also radical students. Pro and against arguments are included.

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