Young people are trained in master’s degrees, specializations and doctorates in the best study houses in Spain, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and in the region through Stock. As reported by the Ministry of Finance, which is leading the project, “they aim to strengthen the human capital of developed countries.”

The training plan of the Don Carlos Antonio López Scholarship (Becal) covers 206 educators from subsidized public and private school institutions, where they complete specializations aimed at improving the quality of the education system.

The Ministry of Finance reported, of the scholars who returned with master studies, there were 268 youths who studied the Social Sciences branch. In Engineering and Technology, there are 106 scholars who have returned with master’s degrees and another 8 who returned from doctoral degrees and 37 from undergraduate mobility.

Additionally, they added that “during its seven years of operation, Becal made 90 calls, enabling the proceeds of some 2,500 scholarships.”

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Psychology, Economics and Business, Law, Education, Engineering and Technology are some of the fields with the most students abroad under this project. Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; Animal Husbandry and Dairy Sciences are the majors chosen in Agricultural Sciences.

With fewer scholarship holders, there is also no shortage of Humanities training, with 18 students returning to the region having studied History and Archeology, Languages ​​and Literature, Philosophy, Ethics and even Religion.

The program awarded 2,730 scholarships to youth and professionals from 17 state departments, including 90 vocations in the past seven years, according to an official Ministry of Finance report.

Until the end of the first quarter of this year, as many as 300 students had returned after attending training abroad. Of the total scholarship recipients, 55% are from state schools, only 30% are from within the country and 82% are children of parents who do not go to college, reported from the Becal unit.