EL NUEVO DIARIO, SANTO DOMINO.- The governments of the United Kingdom and the Dominican Republic pledged to increase mutual support for cooperation to improve the quality of university education, confident that in this way a better level of development could be achieved for various sectors of the Caribbean country .

This was revealed in a working meeting between the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Dr. Franklin García Fermín, and the British Ambassador to the country, Mockbul Ali, who highlighted that the Dominican Republic is the only country in Latin America that has signed a cooperation agreement with the prestigious Oxford University, in the United Kingdom.

Minister García Fermín said that the Dominican Republic maintains cooperation agreements with 8 UK universities.

He said, in the near future the British Embassy in the country will lay off a group of 11 students who will study various disciplines in the Chevening project, which is a British government program that provides scholarships to young talents from around the world.

“We have a program where both governments contribute 50% to send eleven Dominicans with scholarships from the British government and Luis Abinader,” he explained.

He emphasized that of the 11 scholarship recipients, three of them will be fully borne by the British government.

Education, Education and Education

Britain’s ambassador to the country, Mockbul Ali, stated that his government welcomed President Luis Abinader’s proposal that to build the country “it takes education, education and education.”

He assured that the priorities of the Dominican president are the same as those of the British government.

The British diplomat confirmed that Abinader and Minister García Fermín’s vision to promote this agenda was one of the best he had ever seen.

“Only an increase in scholarships for students shows the Dominican government’s real commitment to higher education,” said Ali.

In his meeting with the British Ambassador, García Fermín was accompanied by the Deputy Minister of International Relations of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Paula Disla.

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