Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Higher Education and Interior & Justice Ministries working to merge several institutions into new National Experimental University of Security

Caracas Daily Journal:
Officials from the Higher Education Ministry and the Interior & Justice Ministry are working on a plan to merge several existing institutions into a new National Experimental University of Security, (UNES), according to Higher Education Minister Adan Chavez.

Luis Acuna, a senior official of the Higher Education Ministry, and academic planning chief Humberto Gonzalez recently had a high level meeting with Orietta Caponi, who is the head of the University Institute of the Scientific Police (IUPOLC), which will be one of the institutions incorporated into the new security university.

Other organizations destined to forge the UNES include the Metropolitan Police University Institute (IUPM), the Penitentiary Studies University Institute (IUNEP), the School of Fire Fighting Studies, the Terrestrial Transit School and the Civil Protection training scheme, according to the state run news Agency, ABN.

The National Universities Council (CNU) has also been consulted over the UNES plan.

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