The National Social Security Administration (ANSES) announced on Friday that the more than 400,000 scholarship holders of the Progresar Program and the Manuel Belgrano Strategic Scholarship Plan will have free access to the new foreign language courses that will be taught at various national universities.
As reported by the director of the federal agencyFernanda Raventa, A total of 20,000 free courses will be taught through the Foreign Language Training and Certification Programwhose main objective is “to strengthen the academic trajectory of the scholarship holders of the ANSES”.
“We want to enhance the linguistic competitiveness of our scholarship holders, democratize access to training in foreign languages and increase job opportunities for our young people in the international arena”, emphasized the head of the ANSES during the presentation of the program.
This academic training plan, which had an investment of more than 5,000 million pesoswill be supervised by the Nation’s Minister of Education, Jaime Perczyk, who emphasized the need to “promote teaching as a mechanism for improvement.”
“The State must guarantee access to education and provide the necessary tools so that the country’s youth can study. In this way, Argentine men and women will be able to build a less unequal society,” Perczyk asserted.
What languages will be taught in the courses
In accordance with the pension entity, the program includes training courses in English, French, Portuguese, German, Italian and Mandarin Chineseas well as Spanish classes as a second language for those people who are from native peoples, foreigners, refugees.
In addition to the basic language, advanced technical and reading comprehension classes will be taught for those students who handle different levels of these foreign languages. The courses will be taught by 35 public universities and 65 teacher training institutes in the country, through the virtual modality, with a duration of 64 hours in four months.
It is important to point out that those who complete and enroll in these programs, when they complete 64 hours per quarter, will receive an additional subsidy of 1,500 monthly to their program salaries, which will be paid at the end of the course together with the certification of having completed the workshop.
