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Latin American university expansion
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In mid‑July 2026, Colombia earmarked 125 billion pesos to modernise Universidad del Atlántico in Barranquilla, while Uruguay prepared a new Udelar campus in Colonia del Sacramento for 2027‑28. A week later, Marinilla, Colombia, and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAULA) signed a framework for a low‑income campus offering about 50 programmes. On 25 July 2026, the Consejo Nacional de Educación Superior approved the Pacific Section of the Universidad de Nariño, extending public higher‑education to ten coastal municipalities such as Tumaco, Barbacoas and El Charco. The regional government will allocate roughly 1 billion pesos annually, with additional national funding, and the first programmes will start in August. Concurrently, a $1.45 million, one‑meter robotic telescope built by U.S. firm PlaneWave Instruments was delivered to Nariño for installation at the university’s future Centro de Ciencias, enabling advanced astronomical research and collaborations with NASA and U.S. planetary‑defense agencies. These developments illustrate a continuing wave of university infrastructure The expansion continued on 3 August 2026 when the Ministry of National Education formally issued the resolution creating the Seccional Pacífico of Universidad de Nariño. Vice Minister Ricardo Moreno Patiño presented the document to rector Martha Sofía González Insuasti at a ceremony, underscoring the university’s regionalization strategy and scientific capacity‑building across Latin America. its commitment to educational inclusion and regional development.
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