Guanajuato, Gto., March 3, 2016.- As part of the program of the Technological Baccalaureate with International Profile which is offered by the High School College (CNMS), a group of 13 Japanese students make a residence in the University of Guanajuato (UG) from March 2nd to 7th.

Most of the students come from the Nagaoka National College, one of the institutions of Japan that UG signed a collaboration agreement with, to establish this international baccalaureate in the state's House of Studies.

However, this time, to this group added a group of students from Fukushima, cleared by the UG CNMS' Director, Q.F.B. Martha Oliva Gallaga Ortega.

She also informed that this first exchange is more cultural, and during this visit, both Japanese students as the high school students from Guanajuato and Salamanca who are in the International Baccalaureate, will make a presentation in which they expose basic concepts from their countries and traditions, also, how the educational systems is and the school they study.

This presentation will be held at HS Guanajuato next Saturday March 5th and it will have the attendance of parents, students and professors from both the National Nagaoka College and the University of Guanajuato.

It is important to mention that the Technological Baccalaureate with International Profile is based on a successful Japanese model, the Kosen o National College of Technology, focused on forming since an early age to the youth who is interested in exact sciences.

In UG, there are two locations where this baccalaureate is taught, HS Salamanca offers the program of Mechatronic Technician, which has the support of professors from the Division of Sciences and Engineering of Campus Irapuato-Salamanca. And HS Guanajuato, with the program in Science of Materials, backed by the Division of Natural and Exact Sciences from Campus Guanajuato.

Students from the Technological Baccalaureate with International Profile have access to classes with higher level academics in UG, and in the distance, with Kosen's professors.

The program considers short residencies for students –such is the case of this visit to Guanajuato—and in the higher levels, academic exchanges with a semiannual length; the program also includes Japanese classes and training in companies.

The objective is that the students of this baccalaureate can incorporate to the job world as technicians, study two more years and obtain a certificate as a University Superior Technician (TSU), and if they decide to continue studying for three more years, graduate as engineers.