Foundation for Puerto Rico promotes island in CT
March 25, 2015
The Foundation for Puerto Rico is participating for the first time in the New Haven College Fair Consortium 2015, in Conn., to promote “Campus Puerto Rico,” a program with representation from public and private universities that band together to advocate for Puerto Rico as an academic destination.
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4th, 8th grade students in Puerto Rico fall short in math
March 13, 2015
Many of Puerto Rico's fourth- and eighth-grade public school students are falling short in mathematics achievement, according to “The Nation's Report Card: 2013 Mathematics Assessment in Puerto Rico.”
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‘Productive financing’ driving social, economic dev’t
February 25, 2015
Productive financing, or financial products and services granted for the development of entrepreneurs who have no access to the conventional financial system, is the most effective way to fight poverty and inequality, said Manuel Méndez del Río, president of the BBVA Microfinance Foundation, during a conference this week.
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RUM selected for NSF’s Pathways to Innovation program
February 17, 2015
The University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez Campus, known as RUM, has been selected among 25 U.S. institutions by the NSF-funded National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (known as Epicenter) to join the Pathways to Innovation Program.
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Education, tech firm Declara partner for online platform
February 9, 2015
The Puerto Rico Department of Education recently partnered with Silicon Valley-based Declara to launch a pilot project to connect secondary-level teachers on a single content-rich platform where they will develop professional learning communities, support each other in their endeavors, share best practices and success stories.
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Puerto Rico’s public schools getting $15M tech upgrade
December 2, 2014
Puerto Rico Department of Education officials announced Monday the start of a $15 million technological upgrade program that aims to improve the infrastructure for Internet connectivity at the island’s 1,384 schools over the next five years.
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Janssen launches ‘Bridge to Employment’ program
November 21, 2014
Janssen Pharmaceutical launched the Bridge to Employment (BTE) Program for 57 sophomores in Manatí and Gurabo, as part of its Early Talent Strategy to engage millennials with the life sciences manufacturing sector.
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Thousands of professionals apply for free English course
October 29, 2014
Some 7,000 Puerto Rican professionals from a gamut of sectors applied for a Department of Education-backed free conversational English course that had only 550 spaces available, showing the need for this type of education to language skills, officials from America Aponte & Associates, the company hired to teach the classes, said Tuesday.
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Ana G. Méndez University System gets $464K from USDA
October 23, 2014
The Ana G. Méndez University System has been selected to receive a $463,862 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to replace analog microwave radio transmitters with digital radio transmitters, Rural Development State Director for Puerto Rico José Otero said Wednesday.
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Inter American inaugurates air traffic control program
September 29, 2014
The School of Aeronautics at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico and Airways New Zealand recently inaugurated the first training center for international air traffic control, the first of its kind on the island and the Latin American region.
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UPR Business School to host jobs, internship fair
September 15, 2014
Looking to establish a link between students and potential employers, the University of Puerto Rico’s School of Business Administration in Río Piedras will host a Jobs and Internships Fair on Sept. 24, with the participation of companies looking to recruit students.
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NSU striving to become learning ‘gateway’ to Americas
August 29, 2014
Nova Southeastern University President George L. Hanbury, on hand for the official inauguration of the college’s new regional campus in Puerto Rico, said Thursday among the institution’s goals is becoming a “gateway to Central and South America for education and the health sciences.”
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Nova Southeastern Univ. opens campus in Puerto Rico
August 7, 2014
Nearly two decades after first inserting itself into Puerto Rico’s pharmacy education setting through partnerships with local colleges, Nova Southeastern University will open the doors this month to its own stand-alone campus to further its mission of preparing professionals.
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Sacred Heart University announces new president
August 5, 2014
Sacred Heart University in Santurce has a new president, Gilberto Marxuach-Torrós, named by the institution’s trustees to succeed José Jaime Rivera, who announced his resignation in February after heading the Catholic college for more than two decades.
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75% of region’s youths turn to web when job searching
May 19, 2014
To understand the opinion of young Latin Americans when it comes to searching for a job, Universia, an international organization offering aid to universities around 23 countries throughout Ibero-America, and Trabajando.com, an association comprising several companies, recently conducted the first Employment Survey of 2014, focusing on “means of recruitment.”
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