Best Time to Come From Andrés Bello: Minister of Education
Analyze the actions of a new redirect the Andres Bello Agreement (CAB) was the main objective of the “XXV Ordinary Meeting of Ministers of Education of the Andrés Bello (REMECAB)” which brought together leaders and delegates from the education portfolio of the 12 member countries of the agreement.
The meeting, which took place on Friday January 27 in the city of Cartagena de Indies, had three key objectives: First, there were advances in the process of legal and financial reorganization of the CAB which was ordered by the Ministers of Education member countries in 2009 and defined the actions to continue with this process, and second, was appointed as the new President of the Convention to the Minister of Education of Ecuador, a position he had held the Ministry of Education of Chile and finally, was chosen as the new Executive Secretary of the CAB to Mrs. Monica Lopez, who has held the post of Director of Quality Preschool, Primary and Secondary Education, Ministry of Colombia.
When to start the meeting of Ministers of Education, the Colombian portfolio holder, Maria Fernando Campo congratulated the Ministers and delegates from different work their countries have made over the years to fulfill the mission of this Convention, while ensuring that this meeting marks a new stage for the Andres Bello.
“I want to highlight the serious and dedicated work of all countries to move forward with the Convention. In recent months we have developed important tasks such as achieving financial and administrative consolidation and I think progress is important to make a redirection of the CAB. The best Andrés Bello Convention is coming and this can be achieved if we all come together to develop the mission object, which is focused on education, research, science and technology. This new vision is held by us and what have to do is reach some basic agreements of what we take to achieve this integration space meets this goal, “said Education Minister, Maria Fernando Campo.
During the meeting, Maria Mercedes Perry, Deputy Secretary of the CAB presented the progress of the process of legal and financial reorganization of the Convention, which highlights the increase in assets of $ 1.6 million in 2009 to $ 6.3 million in 2011 the actual decrease in the cost of the Convention and the settlement of the various framework agreements and contracts.
Faced with this process, Victor Rios, Paraguay minister, congratulated the Executive Secretariat of the CAB (SECAB) for their efforts. “This remediation work was daunting. Clearly, the expertise and knowledge to make this possible, but from these results, we must adjust the controls and oversight.” In the same way, Leon Desalt, delegate of the Ministry of Education of Peru also welcomed this management: “We are very proud to be in the Convention and to continue developing it, but we do have to have a greater commitment to the control measures “.
Similarly, Monica Franco, delegate of the Ministry of Education of Ecuador, reached by the leaders greeting, saying that “the work done by the SECAB conviction shows the administration more transparent, which encourages us to continue with the mission of the Convention. Countries should continue to contribute to the Convention and must have the commitment to be vigilant all the activities of it to make more efficient and transparent management, “said the official said, while among the major challenges for the future are CAB support the growing mobility of citizens of member countries and promote the search for new signatories to enrich the management of the CAB.”
Committed to a mission.
the meeting of Ministers of Education, was also the space to hear and discuss the policy proposals of member countries with which we seek to give new impetus to the missionary work of the Convention. In this regard, the minister Campo, he suggested that the leaders of a public building project. “The formation of citizenship is very important for the improvement of educational quality. We want to develop CAB from a project that we can move from the education sector, training projects of citizenship and democratic principles.”
The delegate of Peru referred to the proposal as very important for countries and said that “policies must be articulated at the regional level for everyone to live the same values for coexistence.” On the other hand, the Minister of Paraguay said that “this project in Colombia could become the reference framework to promote integration processes from the convergence of democratic practices in our countries”, while Mexico’s ambassador in Colombia, Salazar Florencio said that this “is an initiative that we should not resign.”
Another proposal discussed at the meeting was presented by the International Institute for Educational Research for Integration (IIICAB), American Institute of Natural and Cultural Heritage (IPANC) and the Institute of Appropriate Technology Transfer for Marginal Areas (ITACAB) , entitled “The Andrés Bello in the XXI century”, which includes among its objectives to incorporate some of the guidelines of the CAB issues such as migration processes, climate change, ICT, technical education and productive as well as restructuring the agency to become a flexible structure, highly functional and operational.
Finally, the minister congratulated Felipe Campo Cousin, representative of the Ministry of Chile who had been exercising the Presidency of the CAB, for his work in the body since 2009 and its commitment in fulfilling the mission of it.
On the Andres Bello.
the countries that are part of the Andres Bello are: Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Mexico, Dominican Republic and Venezuela. Andrés Bello Convention is an international intergovernmental integration organization, which aims to help expand and strengthen the dynamic process of integration of the states in the educational, scientific, technological and cultural.