PERU TURNS TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TO BOOST ITS TERTIARY EDUCATION
May 1st, 2012
BY JONATHAN DYSON, IN LIMA
The Peru government is strengthening its universities' science and technology teaching to improve a higher education performance among the weakest in Latin America. Responding to an increasing demand for science and technology graduates within Peruvian industry, the ministry of economy and finance in January launched an 'Innovation for Competitiveness' programme designed to boost science and technology links between universities, the private sector, and public and private research centres. The project, with USD100 million of state ...
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