Sucre Mission
The Mission Sucre is one of the Bolivarian Missions, born from the Mariscal Antonio José de Sucre Extraordinary Plan, being an initiative of President Hugo Chávez, created by Presidential Decree No. 2,601, of September 8 of 2003. Misión Sucre represents a national plan for access to university education that arises as an initiative of a strategic nature because it intends to be:
- An alternative of avant-garde and socially relevant university education, aimed at the transformation, diffusion and creative use of knowledge and knowledge.
- A space for the participation and exercise of citizenship. A strategy that promotes local, regional and national development.
- An innovative educational practice that offers various opportunities and modalities of study that promote the development of skills, skills and attitudes aimed at building a democratic and participatory society.
Objectives
Misión Sucre's purpose is to facilitate access to and continuation of public, permanent, comprehensive, free university education with equal opportunities for all high school graduates who request it, with the purpose of increasing the educational level of the Venezuelan population and train citizens committed to the development of the country, through the establishment of new university educational models supported by institutional synergy and community participation.
History
During the democratic period, illiteracy fell from 40% in 1958 to just 7% in 1998. The government of Hugo Chávez made efforts to strengthen the entire Venezuelan educational system, for which a large amount of resources to improve it. With respect to access to higher education, the National Government achieved the expansion of the enrollment of the Institutes and University Colleges and in a good part of the National Experimental Universities, in a joint effort with the authorities and the communities of these institutions.
During this period, the Maritime University of the Caribbean; the National Experimental Polytechnic University of the Bolivarian Armed Forces (UNEFA); the National Experimental University of the South of the Lake; the Sports University of the South and the Bolivarian University of Venezuela. Likewise, four new University Institutes of Technology have been created, such as: the IUT of Bolívar State, the IUT of Apure State, the IUT of Barinas State and the IUT in La Fría, Táchira State.
These institutions provide new study opportunities for the large number of high school graduates who return from secondary education, and also respond to the need to transform the higher education system, in terms of geographic coverage, based on the construction of the Balance Territorial designed in the guidelines of the Economic and Social Development Plan.
Free Software in Misión Sucre
Misión Sucre teaches the National Information and Systems Training Program (PNFSI) whose graduate profile says: "The new IT and Systems professional is expected to assume the responsibility of inducing changes in information and communication technologies, making use of free software to reduce dependency technological"
Criticism
The Venezuelan opposition mentions that the educational missions (Robinson, Sucre and Ribas) are to indoctrinate students and "Cubanize them," in reference to the communist system of Cuba, with which the Chávez government maintains good relations. The government claims that these criticisms are meaningless, and they affirm that it is impossible to educate without indoctrinating, all education is associated with an ideology.
The Venezuelan opposition is not the only one that has this opinion, since many people who belong to the new revolution also think that they want to CUBANIZE Venezuelans. The teachers, or rather the facilitators, are basic teachers who do not provide much knowledge to the students of this mission. The government is also accused of using education as an open mechanism for political clientelism.