The Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela (UBV, en, Bolivarian University of Venezuela) is a state university in Venezuela founded in 2003 by decree of President

Hugo Chávez Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (; 28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period in 2002. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republ ...

. The UBV is a part of the Chávez government's "

Mission Sucre Mission Sucre (launched in late 2003) is one of the Bolivarian Missions (a series of anti-poverty and social welfare programs) implemented by the late former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. The program provides free and ongoing higher (coll ...

" social programs, which aim to provide free higher education to the poor. Consequently, enrollment at the UBV is free and open to all, regardless of academic qualifications, prior education or even nationality. The government expects the student body to grow to 1 million by 2009, with more than 190 satellite classrooms throughout Venezuela. The education programme at the UBV is generally in line with Hugo Chávez's socialist vision of a Latin American " Bolivarian Revolution". Opposition leader Julio Borges though, labels it a "thinly disguised

propaganda Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded ...

factory that takes advantage of the country's most vulnerable citizens". However, others are more optimistic. Maria Ejilda Castellano, the rector of the Bolivarian University in Caracas, has said that the institution is designed to benefit the poor precisely by encouraging the open exchange of ideas. Castellano said that the Bolivarian University is based on UNESCO principles for education and that "The professional produced by this institution will work for the transformation of society. She will be a critical thinker who can stimulate others and generate questions."

Courses

The following courses are offered at UBV: *

Agroecology Agroecology (US: a-grō-ē-ˈkä-lə-jē) is an academic discipline that studies ecological processes applied to agricultural production systems. Bringing ecological principles to bear can suggest new management approaches in agroecosystems. The ...

(''Agroecología'') * Architecture (''Arquitectura'') * Social Communication (''Comunicación Social'') * Education (''Educación'') *

Animation Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited ...

(''Animación'') *

Environmental Management Environmental resource management is the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment. It is not, as the phrase might suggest, the management of the environment itself. Environmental resources management aims ...

(''Gestión Ambiental'') * Social Management of Local Development (''Gestión Social del Desarrollo Local'') * Public Health Management (''Gestión de la Salud Pública'') * Medicine (''Medicina'') * Information Technology for Social Management (''Informática para la Gestión Social'') * Law (''Estudios Jurídicos'') * Political Science (''Estudios Políticos y de Gobierno'')

Locales

The University will have branches in the most important regions in Venezuela. At the present time there are branches in: *

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

* Punto Fijo *

Maturín Maturín () is a city in Venezuela, the capital of the Venezuelan state of Monagas and a centre for instrumental exploration and development of the petroleum industry in Venezuela. The metropolitan area of Maturín has a population of 401,384 inha ...

* Ciudad Bolívar *

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Ciudad Guayana Ciudad Guayana () (in English Guayana City) is a city in Bolívar State (Venezuela), Bolívar State, Venezuela. It stretches 40 kilometers along the south bank of the Orinoco, Orinoco river, at the point where it is joined by its main tributary ...

* Barinitas * Maracay * San Cristóbal

Student acceptance

Candidate students must be high-school graduates. As distinguished from the rest of Venezuelan universities, they are assigned by the

. As of January 2011, the UBV has awarded over 120,000 degrees.

References

External links

Bolivarian University website
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