Model for the continuity of graduate education in postgraduate training: UNAN-Managua

Abstract

The continuity of postgraduate undergraduate training has the goal of integrating university training, research and extension processes in a coherent sequence, of greater scope and continuity of skills from undergraduate to postgraduate, which allows the linkage and effective development of lines of research at both levels. Therefore, to achieve this, a constructive, recursive, systematic work methodology and inclusive participation of the actors involved is necessary.

To do this, the construction of a model for the continuity of undergraduate and graduate training explains how undergraduate and graduate training can be linked is based on different foundations. Among these are: the methodology to build theoretical models, the country's legal framework, the mission, vision and values of the institution of higher education, as well as concepts and theories related to curricular models that favor the integral development of learning, of research and extension processes.

 The different levels of integration (level of integration in the undergraduate degree, level of integration in the integrating axis, research projects (intervention) and level of integration and link with postgraduate degrees), give coherence to the continuity process in which the they link training, research and extension. However, the model is finally materialized in a series of actions that culminate in the improvement of the training of postgraduate programs, taking as a basis the model to develop competencies.