Will the five-year engineering degree survive in Argentina?
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Abstract
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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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.002 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".