With a view to the educational transformation Driven by digital media, the Government has initiated a national consultation process to redesign the future of the education system and create access to jobs.
Within the framework of this debate, a series of organizations such as the National Institute of Technical and Vocational Training (Infotep), the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (Mescyt), the Ministry of Education (minerd) and the Public Administration support these new advances brought by technology.
This is how, under the panel “The role of digital media in educational transformation“, different directors of educational organizations presented their opinions.
This initiative seeks to redesign the future of the educational system so that it is capable of responding to the scientific, technological, social and economic challenges of new times, thus facilitating the creation and access to job positions.
The director of Infotep, Maira Margarita Morla Pineda explained that the objective is “to look for alternatives to improve education in the Dominican Republic, to have a robust educational system that strengthens each citizen of the country, so that they can be inserted in the future of a competitive labor market in which technology, artificial intelligence and other elements are taking up space that should also be competition for those of us who form part of the education subsystem.”
He highlighted that the Dominican Republic is discussing, right now, how it will educate its children in the next fifty years.
“We are not talking about a curricular adjustment. We are not talking about a change of minister. We are talking about redefining, from the foundations, what it means to learn in this country,” said Morla.
more jobs
Within the framework of the meeting on educational reform, the minister of Mescyt, Rafael Santos Badiareaffirmed that with this proposal they will generate more than five thousand jobs, where young people will be able to occupy those positions, and promises the modernization of the country.
“In two years there will be more than five thousand jobs in all the provinces of the country,” he declared.
The former director of Infotep, also added in the conference “The role of digital media in educational transformation”, that science, technology and innovation will be fundamental axes of the leadership of the new educational system, becoming engines of development, competitiveness and the productive transformation of the country.
In the activity, the institutions that promote educational reform highlighted the responsibility of the digital press in building an informed citizenry committed to the changes that the national educational system requires to respond to the challenges of the present and the future.
Consultations continue
The Executive Commission for Educational Transformation indicated that the National Consultation for the Future of Dominican Education, started in the southern region. This is with the purpose of promoting broad citizen participation and strengthening the dissemination of this initiative.
They indicated that this educational reform, promoted jointly by the Ministry of Education (Minerd), the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (Mescyt), the Ministry of Public Administration (MAP) and the National Institute of Professional Technical Training (Infotep), is based on three essential pillars: citizen and inclusive participation, multi-sector consultation and the democratic legitimacy of decisions.
The institutions responsible for the consultation explained that inclusive citizen participation guarantees the representation of all sectors of society; multisectoral consultation encourages dialogue and consensus building; while democratic legitimacy strengthens transparency, co-responsibility and collective commitment to the future of Dominican education.
They added that the reform also seeks to strengthen educational quality, the articulation between education and the labor market, the development of the National Qualifications Framework, the promotion of research and the consolidation of a system that guarantees relevance, inclusion and lifelong learning.
Other details of the query
The National Consultation for the Future of Dominican Education has started an agenda of regional forums, sectoral meetings and consultations with the diaspora between the months of June and July, with the purpose of collecting contributions from various sectors of society for the construction of a proposal for the comprehensive transformation of the educational system.
As part of this process, meetings have already been held with members of the press grouped in the Dominican College of Journalists (CDP), and in the El Valle and Enriquillo regional offices.
This consultation includes developing spaces for dialogue in different areas of the country, including Northeast, Northwest, Cibao Sur, Cibao Norte, Valdesia, Ozama and Este, as well as specialized meetings with higher education institutions, international cooperation organizations and productive sectors.
