INTEC incorporates into its curriculum the National Development Strategy

Santo Domingo. The Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development (MEPyD) and the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) signed an inter-institutional cooperation agreement to incorporate the study of the National Development Strategy (NDT) into the university curriculum as a topic of the General Training Cycle.
 
As part of the subject Human Being and Society, all students, regardless of their career, will analyze the Strategy, which maps the country's development lines to 2030, as established by the 1-12 Law, promulgated by the January 25 of 2012.

The agreement was signed on Thursday afternoon by the Minister of Economy, Planning and Development, Temístocles Montás and the rector of INTEC, Rolando Guzmán in an act in the office of the official in the National Palace.
 As a first step within the framework of the agreement, ten teachers of Social Sciences and Humanities who teach the subject Human Being and Society at INTEC will analyze the Strategy law with a representation from the Ministry of Economy. 

In addition, a MEPyD official and other guests will participate each quarter in discussions on the subject organized by INTEC and both institutions are open to organize analysis and study spaces related to the implementation of the strategy, explains a note from the Ministry's Communications Unit of Economy.

The event was attended by the Ministry of Economy, the Vice Minister of Planning, Juan Tomás Monegro; the Legal Director, Roger Abreu and the Social Welfare analyst of the Advisory Unit for Economic and Social Analysis, Leopoldo Artiles. Participating for INTEC were María Córdoba, director of Curricular Development, and professor Claudio Adams, a university official.

In his introductory remarks, Montás said that the purpose is to promote and disseminate the National Development Strategy. In this sense, the official indicated that the agreement states that INTEC is going to include the END as part of the General Training Cycle to impart it in a way that is part of the training of students.

"We want to congratulate INTEC for this important initiative, to recognize that it was the educational institution that became a pillar of the promotion of the National Development Strategy at the moment that we began the process of seeking consensus with the different sectors of national life , to subsequently achieve approval at the level of the National Congress, "said Montás.
 
The rector of INTEC, for his part, stressed that “the initiative is part of the university's effort to innovate continuously and create new forms of reflection on issues that contribute to improving the living conditions of Dominican society, always serving as an example to other universities ”.

Montás took the opportunity to invite the rest of the national universities to imitate this gesture of INTEC, so that future Dominican professionals leave the classroom with a clear awareness of the need for national development to be strategically planned.

INTEC is the first university to take on this issue as a way of promoting citizen responsibility. The rector Guzmán assured that for the university the signing of the agreement that aims to develop a set of incorporation actions in the reflection of the END to the curriculum developed by the students is of great satisfaction and relevance.

"This action is perfectly framed in the reason and objectives of INTEC, whose statutes establish that the institution must work to contribute to improving the living conditions of Dominicans and of course a National Development Strategy is an instrument aimed at those ends, "he said.

Guzmán considered it essential that the students, as part of the process of reflecting on the country's social and economic reality, have the opportunity to critically discuss the content of the END, the purpose it pursues, the instruments it proposes, in order to grow as citizens.

He also stressed that INTEC's interest "is not only to train the best professionals in the country, but also the best citizens".
 
In the 2010 INTEC was the first university that held three forums for the academic community and interested in the END, when it was still a draft law.
 
The university incorporates the debate of current issues as part of regular training, through forums and discussion spaces such as the Permanent Seminar on Economics, Development and Environment (SPEDA), which each quarter coordinates the Business Economics degree .
 
The National Development Strategy 2030 proposes public policy measures in four areas: Institutionality, social development, economic competitiveness and environmental development.

Also participating in the event were the Ministry of Economy, the Vice Minister of Planning, Juan Tomás Monegro; the Legal Director, Roger Abreu and the Social Welfare analyst of the Advisory Unit for Economic and Social Analysis, Leopoldo Artiles. Participating for INTEC were María Córdoba, director of Curricular Development, and professor Claudio Adams, a university official.