Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences

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Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences
Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación
Established:	1981
Type:	Public
Rector:	Raúl Navarro
Students:	6,257
Location:	Santiago, Chile
Affiliations:	Chilean Traditional Universities
Website:	www.umce.cl

The Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences (Spanish: Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación) is a university specialized in Pedagogy and located in the commune of Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile.

[edit] History

The university was created in 1889 as the Instituto Pedagógico de la Universidad de Chile. In 1981 the military government of General Pinochet separated it from the University of Chile and transformed it into the Academia superior de Ciencias pedagógicas de Santiago. Later in 1985, under the control the new university law it was transformed into the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación. In 2001, the university was going to reintegrate with the University of Chile under a proposal of the Minister of Education Mariana Aylwin but this idea was defeated by the current rector Raúl Navarro. Today, the university is a hundred-year-old center of higher learning, the country's leading institute of applied pedagogical and teaching research.

[edit] Alumni

• Pedro Aguirre Cerda
• Pablo Neruda - Chilean Poet, Nobel Laureate in Literature
• Nicanor Parra - Chilean Poet
• Mariano Latorre - Chilean writer
• Sergio Villalobos Rivera - Chilean Historian
• Ariel Dorfman - Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic
• Antonio Skármeta - Chilean writer

Chilean Traditional Universities (Consejo de Rectores)

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile • Arturo Prat University • Southern University of Chile • Temuco Catholic University • Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso • Catholic University of the Holy Conception • Catholic University of the Maule • Catholic University of the North • University of Antofagasta • University of Atacama • University of Concepción • University of Chile • University of La Serena • University of La Frontera • University of Los Lagos • University of Magallanes • Playa Ancha University of Educational Sciences • University of Santiago, Chile • University of Talca • University of Tarapacá • University of Valparaíso • University of the Bío-Bío • Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences • Federico Santa María Technical University • Metropolitan University of Technology