Critical point of view

In Latin America there are different strategies to improve education and competitiveness; that means that each country must respond to those requirements and search new tools to enhance the quality of education.

Colombia has been influenced by those strategies because it had to create new ways to control the teachers’ training, Higher Education and it developed other programs to learn English. It has more opportunities to be competitive in the worldwide but it is not enough with these tools. Colombian people need more opportunities to face the globalization requirements; for that, people need more English learning.

I think we as teachers and as students from UNAD can help in a simple and an effective way; with our proposal this university would provide to its students more help in their English learning process; we would enable new students to have an easier adaptation in the university and in our program English Teaching as a Foreign Language because we know the needs that they have and we know it very well.

I also believe that at UNAD and in our program there is a lack of good leadership because they do not have a lot of experience in this program; even if the structure of courses has changed there are still some problems to manage the quality of education.