The Consejo Nacional de Acreditación – CNA (National Accreditation Council) is pleased to inform the publishing of the first public invitation for the updating of the Academic Peer Bank for Accreditation
On October 28, interuniversity mountain bike racing SUE took place within the Universidad Nacional facilities, in which various universities from the Capital participated. The racing format was the eliminator, a very short intense track with five first participants from each starting group selected to define the winners in a final competition. This time, the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional won all the gold medals in the different categories:
Ladies:
P1: Natalia Duarte (Mountain Bike Team Coach and UPN Teacher)
P2: Yudy Alfonso (Elementary Basic bachelor’s Student)
Students:
P1: David Téllez (Sports bachelor’s Student)
P3: Jesús Mayorga (Sports bachelor’s Student)
P7: Eduardo Tovar (Physics bachelor’s Student)
Officials, Professors and Graduates:
P1: Andrés Hernández (Chemistry B.S.)
P3: Camilo Barón (Sports bachelor’s Graduate and Teacher)
P4: Roland Useche (Financial Officer)
P5: Leonardo Fabio Martínez (Chemistry Teacher)
P7: Jhon Antonie Perez (Physical Plant Official)
According to our sports calendar, on November 4, they participated in the interuniversity mountain bike racing of the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, held on the Cajicá campus, where they had the opportunity to compete against other universities, not only from the capital but from the whole department, obtaining great results. The race style was “Short track”, a short but very technical and demanding circuit, with very muddy terrains. The results are the following:
Expert Ladies:
P2: Natalia Duarte (Mountain Bike Team Coach and UPN Teacher)
Recreational ladies:
P2: Yudy Alfonso (Elementary Basic bachelor’s Student)
Students:
P10: Daniel Londoño (Chemistry bachelor’s Student)
P11: Eduardo Tovar (Physics bachelor’s Student)
Officials and Teachers:
P1: Roland Useche (Financial Official)
P3: Camilo Barón (Sports bachelor’s Graduate and Teacher)
P5: Hendrix Suarez (Systems Official)
P6: Leonardo Fabio Martínez (Chemistry Teacher)
P10: Jhon Antonie Perez (Physical Plant Official)
P13: Cristian Becerra (IPN Official)
Graduates:
P5: Andrés Hernández (Chemistry bachelor’s Graduate)
It is also remarkable the participation of the official Jhon Antonie Pérez in the XXII juegos deportivos nacionales SINTRAUNICOL (XXII SINTRAUNICOL National Sports Games), held on October in Girardot, Cundinamarca. He was runner-up in the Mountain Bike category and obtained the bronze medal in the Time Trial (road) category.
During the second day of the National Educational Forum 2023, a meeting organized by the Ministry of National Education to strengthen spaces for participation, dialogue, reflection and awareness from the perspectives about diversity in education.
The Universidad Pedagógica Nacional successfully carried out the “Humanities Week, a bid for the knowledge dialogue”, gathering students, teachers and university graduates to listen to national and international guests’ experiences, as well as our graduates.
The Language Center at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (UPN) was born as an extension project that responds to the need to provide the community with the opportunity to train in a foreign language, such as English, French, Italian, and German.
Stephania Rovira Ochoa, a graduate of the former bachelor’s degree in Basic Education with an emphasis on humanities: Spanish and foreign languages, decided to cross borders and take her knowledge to the classrooms of Luxembourg, a small country in northwestern Europe.
The Maternal School of the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional emerged as a space for educating children under four years of age as critical, creative, independent individuals capable of expressing themselves freely.
Derly Daza, a graduate of what was then called the bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Languages, traveled to the United States 15 years ago to become an ally of the Spanish-speaking communities in North Carolina.
María del Carmen Contreras Flórez, a graduate of the bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and the specialization in Mathematics Education at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, has devoted over 15 years to teaching mathematics to the new generations.
Francisco Javier Rivera Montoya, a clarinet professor at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, fell in love with music and teaching from a young age. Consequently, he pursued his studies at the Conservatory of Music at the National University of Colombia and decided to become a professional clarinetist.