CUROC and Commonwealth Sesecapa Valley: an alliance to bring the UNAH to Ocotepeque

Abstract

Contribute to improve the coverage of statistics in the higher education and make more youngsters that have the academic merits have access to the Honduras Autonomous National University, UNAH, reason that motivated the municipal authorities of the city halls that make the Valle de Sesecapa in the western part of the country, the living forces in that zone and the Western Regional Universitary Center (CUROC), add efforts to put in functioning the Telecenter UNAH-CUROC Ocotepeque, that is currently benefiting more than 100 youngsters of that sector of the Honduran territory.

The telecenter of the UNAH in Ocotepeque, has as origin the request for the creation of a Higher technological institute, that the living forces of the western zone, requested to the CUROC, as the central node of the educational web of the UNAH in the western of the country. To this initiative was added the association of city halls of Valle de Sesecapa (AMVAS).

The renovation of the social commitment of the UNAH with the society, the succesful experience of the functioning of the telecenter in Gracias, Lempira, by the CUROC and the responsibility assumed by the city halls of Ocotepeque, Concepción, Santa Fe and Sinuapa and its citizens, showed that through this experience of the telecenter of Ocotepeque, that the united effort of the academy, the local governments and the civil society assure the answers to the socioeconomic and cultural needs of the communities.

In 2014, that effort is traduced in the achievement of 87 graduated youngsters of the different high schools of Ocotepeque, study in the telecenter of the UNAH in Ocotepeque the careers of degree in Pedagogy and the Technical in Microfinances, both in the virtual modality. The process and the achievements of this dream and shared work are exposed in the following article.

UNAH INNOV@ No 4 2015 page 11-18