The General Secretariat of the Central American Integration System (SICA) has established an important strategic alliance with one of the world's leading companies in online education, COURSERA.
“We seek to contribute to member countries, to people in every possible way. This Alliance provides professional training, with the best academic institutions in the world through Coursera, which helps people to have better chances of finding employment, especially due to the situation we are going through with the pandemic” he said. Vinicio Cerezo, Secretary General of SICA.
The SICA and COURSERA Alliance provides 10,000 scholarships for people from the eight SICA member countries: Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic, who will have the opportunity to choose from a variety of more than 4,000 available courses with totally free certifications.
Courses include recorded video lectures, discussion forums, self-graded and reviewed assignments. You can choose from a wide range of courses and specializations from management, finance, technology, languages, arts, self-improvement, humanities, business, history and many more.
Conditions for accessing the courses
Be a national of one of the eight member countries of SICA: Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic.
The deadline to register for the training program is October 31, 2020.
Complete the courses before December 31, 2020. After this date, the selected courses will have a cost in accordance with Coursera's commercial policies. If the person wishes to continue with the selected courses, the cost must be assumed by them.
Enrollment Steps
Step 1. Complete the registration form at the following link:
Registration form
Step 2. You will receive an email with information on how to access the SICA training space on the Coursera platform.
Step 3. Access the Coursera platform and select the desired training courses from the following link:
Courses available
For any questions regarding this matter please contact us at [email protected]
What is Coursera?
Coursera is one of the world's leading online learning platforms, founded in 2012 by two Stanford University professors to provide free access to quality education from anywhere.
Because Coursera courses are pre-recorded and online, you can take a course whenever and wherever you want. You don't need to go anywhere or watch lessons at a specific time.
At present, This platform has a variety of courses on different topics, taught in 29 countries and by 147 institutions.
These courses are taught by more than 200 of the best universities in the world, such as: Yale, Columbia University, University of California, Arizona State University, and from Latin America: IAE of Argentina, Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile, the Tecnológico de Monterrey, among other academic institutions.
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