Universidade de São Tomé e Príncipe

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Universidade de São Tomé e Príncipe
USTP
founding July 24, 2014
Sponsorship State
place Sao Tome
country Sao Tome and PrincipeSao Tome and Principe Sao Tome and Principe
Rector Peregrino Costa (since 2014)
Students approx. 2000
Networks AULP
Website www.ustp.st

The Universidade de São Tomé e Príncipe ( Portuguese for: 'University of São Tomé and Príncipe', USTP) is the first state university in São Tomé and Príncipe . It was founded in 2014 in the capital São Tomé .

history

São Tomé and Príncipe has been a Portuguese colony since its discovery in 1471 . Until independence in 1975 there were only secondary schools here, but no university.

After two polytechnic universities ( Institutos Superiores , comparable to German universities of applied sciences ) had emerged in the 1990s, the first private university in São Tomé and Príncipe opened in 2006 with the local branch of the Portuguese Universidade Lusíada .

Lecture in February 2014 on entrepreneurship in a lecture hall of the Instituto Superior Politécnico , now a faculty of the USTP

On July 24, 2014, the São Tomé and Príncipes government founded the USTP, the first state university in the country. The mathematician Peregrino Costa became the rector , and from 1999 to 2001 Minister of Culture and Education. The USTP is also intended to reduce the public study costs for Sãotomeser, who previously had to study with government grants in Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, Morocco, Cuba, Russia or Taiwan. The São Tomés government asked the governments of Portugal and Brazil for permanent support of the USTP in teaching and financing. The university is a member of the Associação das Universidades de Língua Portuguesa (AULP).

In September 2014, Rector Costa presented the first four departments: the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Education and Communication Science, the Faculty of Health Sciences, and the Center for Development Studies. The previous University of Applied Sciences, Instituto Superior Politécnico , was merged into the new scientific faculty, while its rooms now accommodate the new university.

In April 2015, the Ministries of Education of São Tomé and Príncipe and Portugal agreed on a collaboration that provides for Portuguese universities to be able to offer courses and degrees in São Tomé and Príncipe. This resulted in the extensive collaboration between the USTP and the University of Évora in October 2015 . 85 students are enrolled in three courses at the University of Évora at the USTP, which take place on the premises of the USTP and the Portuguese Cultural Center in São Tomé.

In 2015, the students of the young university went on strike in protest against the lack of important facilities. Only theoretical teaching is possible, without laboratories, computers and other necessary equipment for practical teaching. The students also called for an improvement in the precarious supply of drinking water and sanitary facilities on campus.

In September 2015, the creation of a German course at the UPSTP was announced. With the support of the Goethe-Institut and the German Academic Exchange Service and in cooperation with the University of Münster , German lessons will begin. Participants in the exchange are the winners of an annual competition for students of the German course. This competition is organized by the head of the university's German department, Diana Jordao da Cruz, and financed by Stephan Welk, the special advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sao Tomé e Principe.

structure

The USTP currently comprises the following departments:

  • Centro de Aperfeiçoamento Técnico Agropecuário (CATAP, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences)
  • Escola de Formação de Professores e Educadores (EFOPE, Faculty of Education )
  • Instituto de Ciências da Saúde “Victor Sá Machado” (ICS-VSM, Faculty of Health Sciences)
  • Instituto Superior Politécnico (ISP) (engineering, mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry, languages, history, tourism, administration, management, public relations)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Membros Titulares - AULP . In: Associação das Universidades de Língua Portuguesa . Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  2. Cerimónia de Empossamento do novo Reitor da Universidade de São Tomé e Príncipe na íntegra ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - ANDIM TV, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.andimtv.com
  3. Lusíada abre primeira universidade em S. Tomé e Príncipe - “Lusíada opens first university in São Tomé and Príncipe” , article dated November 23, 2006 on the website of the Portuguese public television service RTP , accessed on January 5, 2017
  4. SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE CRIA 1ª UNIVERSIDADE PÚBLICA - “São Tomé and Príncipe creates the first public university” ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article of July 28, 2014 on the website of the Associação das Universidades de Língua Portuguesa (AULP), accessed on January 5, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / aulp.org
  5. Primeira Universidade Pública está a nascer - “First public university is taking shape” Article of September 12, 2014 from the saotomesic news portal Téla Nón, accessed on January 5, 2017
  6. Abertura do ano académico 2015/16 da Universidade de Évora em São Tomé e Príncipe - "Opening of the 2015/16 academic year of the University of Évora in São Tomé and Príncipe" ( Memento des Originals of January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article of October 13, 2015 on the Saotomes Embassy website in Portugal, accessed January 5, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saotome.embaixadaportugal.mne.pt
  7. Greve na Universidade de S.Tomé e Príncipe - “Strike at the University of S.Tomé and Príncipe” , article of January 13, 2015 on the news portal www.portalstp.com, accessed on January 5, 2017
  8. Estudantes paralisam a Primeira Universidade Pública do país - "Students paralyze the first public university in the country" , article of January 13, 2015 of the Saotomesian news portal Téla Nón, accessed on January 5, 2017
  9. Universidade de São Tomé e Príncipe prepara licenciatura em alemão - “University of São Tomé and Príncipe prepares German degree program / licentiate ”, Portuguese-language article from September 24, 2015 on the Deutsche Welle website , accessed on January 5, 2017
  10. Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.libreville.diplo.de

Coordinates: 0 ° 19 ′ 33.9 ″  N , 6 ° 43 ′ 49.5 ″  E