The National Council of Superior Education (CONES) yesterday presented to officials of the DR’s universities its plans for the first full national evaluation of the institutions’ fitness since 1993. The object of the comprehensive evaluation will be to determine whether or not the universities are meeting their accreditation requirements. As a result of the last review, two universities, UCIFAS and CETEC, were closed. In early 1998, after years of vocal complaints from professionals about conditions in the law and medicine programs of several universities, the Government decreed the closing of two more, Eugenio Mar?a de Hostos (UNIREHMOS) and Federico Henr?quez y Carvajal (UFEHC). CONES President Alejandrina Germ?n promised a tough, thorough review. She also called on the Congress to pass the proposed Law on Superior Education in 1999 so that the Fern?ndez Administration can make necessary reforms in the nation’s university system.
