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Will the five-year engineering degree survive in Argentina?

2007· article· en· W2140547813 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicScience, Technology, and Education in Latin America
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLatin AmericansBachelorGeographyPolitical scienceEconomic historyHistoryLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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Traditionally the length of the engineering careers has been six or five years in Argentina. Fr om the first degree granted in 1870 the universities adopt ed the scheme of continental Europe, specially taking into account Spain, France and Italy. If five years or ix were necessary, is on what people disagree. But now all the countries in Europe have changed to 3+2 or 4+1 due to the Bologna agreement. And also, the Washington Accord (Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom and United States) confirmed the Bachelor and Master scheme. This leaves most of the Latin-American countries as the only ones with a five-year degree. Several meetings have been held in the initiative Ingenieria para las America s searching for a unified criteria. Argentina belongs to the MERCOSUR, with Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Venezuela as full members and Chile and Bolivia as associated members. Brazil already has a 4+1 scheme. So it is easy to forecast that in less than ten years, an agreement for a 3+2 or 4+1 will be drawn first at MERCOSUR level and after that, extended the whole hemisphere. In Argentina the change is not very popular.Professionals associations are against it a nd also radical students. Pro and against arguments are included.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.676
Threshold uncertainty score0.675

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.322
Teacher spread0.291 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it