A group of five teachers of the Nursing School of Coimbra (ESEnfC) will begin today the first Licentiate Degree Course in the University of Cape Verde.
Ana Albuquerque Queiroz, Dionísia Loreto and José Carlos Martins are responsible for the beginning of this course, while Aida Mendes and Manuela Frederico while do the first follow-up of the course and analyse its certification at an international level.
The teachers of the ESEnfC will also open two complement courses of training - in Mindelo and Praia - aimed at nurses with professional experience but who did not have the academic degree of Licentiate.
In this academic year only, 25 teachers of the ESEnfC will lecture curricular units of the new 1st cycle in Nursing and of the complement courses of training.
The Licentiate course (day classes) will be attended by 30 Cape Verdean students, while 55 nurses are enrolled in the two complement courses of training (evening classes).
The Licentiate course is being implemented in collaboration with teachers of the University of Cape Verde. There are curricular units common to several other courses (such as Statistics or Research) in the study plan. These subjects are lectured by Cape Verdean teachers.
The course has a duration of 4 years, similar to the Licentiate course of the ESEnfC. There was a concern to take into account the specific sanitary problems and needs of organisation of health care in Cape Verde.
On the other hand, the complement course of training, with the duration of one academic year (1400 hours) and which will grant equivalence to the Licentiate course, is entirely lectured by teachers from Coimbra.
This Wednesday, the president of the Directing Board of the ESEnfC, Professora Maria da Conceição Bento, returns to the archipelago - where she has already been in April - in order to sign the final collaboration protocol with the University of Cape Verde and participate in the official opening ceremony of the classes.
