Program CI-UNA-English ACCESS Microscholarship: Promoting academic and professional development of high school students at Perez Zeledon
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15359/udre.6-1.10Keywords:
program, alliance, skillsAbstract
CI-UNA-English Access Microscholarship Program is being developed in San Isidro, Pérez Zeledón for the first time through an alliance among Centro de Idiomas, Universidad Nacional, Sede Regional Brunca (CI-UNA), the US Embassy and the Ministry of Public Education. The mission of this alliance is to favor the academic and professional development by granting economic scholarships to specific students for a two-period years. The parameters for this selection are founded on two criteria: high academic achievement and an economically disadvantaged status. Based on the implementation of this program for eight months in this region, this study is an attempt to describe CI-UNA- English Access Microschorlaship Program, its theoretical foundation, administrative and academic organization, methodological structure, materials, evaluation as well as the entrance and exit students’ profile.
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