Mexicos Strategic Academic Mobility Program to the US Results and - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Martha Navarro-Albo Director General for Technical and Scientific Cooperation, AMEXCID General Coordinator of Proyecta 100,000 Boston, Massachusetts

Mexico’s Strategic Academic Mobility Program to the US

Results and Perspectives

Source: World Economic Outlook Database. International Monetary Fund, 2014

North America: the most competitive region in the global market

29%

28% 22% 21%

Europe East Asia Rest of the world

The 3 countries in North America produce the same as 28 European nations or 13 Asian countries.

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Mexico’s trade with the United States compared with the rest of the world

Even together our country trade less with these regions than with 4 US border states: California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas (US$271 billion) Trade with the European Union (US$62 billion) Trade with South America (US$29 billion) Trade with Central America (US$9 billion)

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The U.S. is Mexico’s largest trading partner

Mexico’s total foreign trade in 2013

Our total trade in 2013 was around US$507 billion. With our other major partners: China: US$67 billion European Union: US$62 billion Canada: US$32 billion

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U.S. Top 10 trade partners

Canada 25% China 22% Mexico 20% Japan 9% Germany 6% United Kingdom 5% South Korea 4% Brazil 3% Saudi Arabia 3% France 3%

Mexico is the U.S. third largest trade partner.

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Mexico and the U.S.: trade and student mobility

Fuente: Open Doors Report 2014; US Census Bureau; CIA: The World Factbook

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Which are Mexico’s students destinations around the world?

1 United States 14,779 2 Spain 2,542 3 France 2,246 4 Germany 1,668 5 United Kingdom 1,519 6 Canada 1,089 7 Cuba 867 8 Australia 592 9 Italy 394 10 Netherlands 297 Source: Global Flow of Tertiary-Level Students, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2013

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Presidents Obama and Peña Nieto announced a new cooperation mechanism: Bilateral Forum on Higher Education, Research and Innovation Proposal presented by the Mexican Consultation Group of FOBESII (formed by 38 academic, public, and private institutions)

North America is committed to become the most competitive and dynamic region in the world

FOBESII oficial launch in the presence of Secretaries Jose Antonio Meade, Emilio Chuayffet and John Kerry.

MAY 2013 SEPTEMBER 2013 MAY 2014

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Proyecta 100,000: Goals

Annual Goals

Base*

(inertial mobility)

2014

Accomplished

2015 2016 2017 2018

Mexican students in the US

14,779 27,000 46,000 64,500 82,500 100,000

Includes undergraduate and graduate mobility, faculty mobility, internships, English language courses and other academic short stays. Annual Growth rate varies for each modality. Short-stays have a bigger annual growth rate.

*Source: Institute of International Education, Open Doors

 Proyecta 100,000 is the result of the joint efforts of Mexican stakeholders and experts from the academic, public, private, and non-governmental sectors.  It is a Mexican initiative which goal is to have by 2018, 100 thousand Mexican students, faculty and researchers with learning experiences in the United States and 50 thousand U.S. students, faculty and researchers studying in Mexico .  It also encourages the multiplication of binational research and innovation centers, language teaching, and the promotion of academic exchange opportunities.

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Proyecta 100,000: Rationale behind the ESL initial strategy

EF English Proficiency Index

English proficiency in Latinamerica

43.45 43.70 45.77 46.11 48.52 48.54 48.75 49.61 49.83 49.96 51.05 51.46 53.65 59.02

El Salvador Panama Guatemala Venezuela Costa Rica Colombia Chile Uruguay Mexico Brazil Ecuador Peru Dominican… Argentina

• 4 out of 14 Latinamerican countries included in EF EPI 2014

have English proficiency above the regional average.

• Mexico showed a low English proficiency

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English language proficiency in Mexico: a challenge for academic cooperation

120 millons in 2014

12 % claims to read English perfectly fine

9 % claims to speak it fluently, which represent approximately 850,000 people

12.9 % of the adult population claim to speak English: 9.5 million Mexicans

Adult population in Mexico: 77 million people

Proyecta 100,000: Rationale behind the initial strategy

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English language proficiency in Mexico: a tool for human capital formation

100% 35% 0.5%

Economically Active Population in Mexico: 52 million people Has taken some kind of work training

Has taken some kind of language training

Proyecta 100,000: Rationale behind the initial strategy

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97% of students did not reach the level of English required by the Ministry of Education (SEP) to graduate from high school (B1). Overall, the students have poor results. However the less economically advantaged students tend to have the worst outcome.

Low Socioeconomic Situation High Socioeconomic Situation Low Socioeconomic Situation High Socioeconomic Situation

Proyecta 100,000: Rationale behind the initial strategy

Learning English in Mexico: a challenge for international mobility

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2014 Results: Unprecedented strategic program, in budgetary and academic terms

SEP-SRE-Proyecta 100,000, ESL Program

• 31,980 million USD
• Design and implementation of a Database Management System to allocate and monitor grant holders in

each HEI in the US

• Launching of the Call during 5 weeks in all public HEIs in Mexico
• 23,740 applications
• 7,500 scholarships of $4,264 USD per grantee
• Priority criteria: Being beneficiary of the Prospera program, of the Program for Social Prevention of

Violence and Crime, to reside in one of the 400 priority municipalities of the National Crusade Against Hunger, being indigenous, living in rural or urban-rural disavantaged communities, having physical, visual

• r auditive handicaps, students of scientific and technological Majors, being women, and being single

mothers.

• Representation of the 32 states in the country included Mexico City
• Negotiation of 7,500 spots in 142 HEIs of 40 states in the US
• Management of 7,500 passports and visas
• Binational work (SRE – US Embassy and Consulates in Mexico)
• Participation of 28 Mexican consulates for welcoming, monitoring and supporting extra-curricular activities

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HIGHER TECHNICIAN IN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT HIGHER TECHNICIAN IN TOURISM SURGEON AND MIDWIFE DOCTOR BIOCHEMISTRY ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY ENGINEERING ENGLISH TEACHER METALWORKING ENGINEERING GASTRONOMY CIVIL ENGINEERING BASIC EDUCATION BIOTECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENT ENGINEERING BUSINESS MANAGEMENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING ARCHITECTURE COMPUTER SYSTEMS ENGINEERING MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 50 52 54 54 57 58 59 59 60 66 72 75 82 88 92 96 99 202 228 366

Top 20 Majors

2014 Results: SEP-SRE-Proyecta 100,000 ESL Call

42% 58%

Gender Distribution

Men Women

70% 30%

Students/Teachers Distribution

Students Teachers

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200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600

MISSOURI NEW YORK OKLAHOMA NEW MEXICO FLORIDA WASHINGTON ILLINOIS ARIZONA TEXAS CALIFORNIA

184 218 250 276 312 320 402 741 1343 1535

Top 10 American States

100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 VERACRUZ SONORA DISTRITO FEDERAL CHIAPAS CHIHUAHUA PUEBLA SINALOA HIDALGO JALISCO MEXICO 257 287 293 314 323 365 372 421 606 732

Top 10 Mexican States

2014 Results: SEP-SRE-Proyecta 100,000 ESL Call

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2014 Results: SEP-SRE-Proyecta 100,000 ESL Call

732 606 421 372 365 323 314 293 287 257 248 240 232 205 196 182 181 171 170 169 167 162 153 145 139 134 126 111 109 98 97 20

Mexican home states

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2014 Results: SEP-SRE-Proyecta 100,000 ESL Call

1535 1343 741 402 320 312 276 250 218 184 170 159 120 107 106 105 91 87 83 71 69 64 60 59 54 50 45 38 35 34 32 29 29 28 26 23 20 20 19 11 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600

California Texas Arizona Illinois Washington Florida New Mexico Oklahoma New York Missouri Connecticut West Virginia Indiana Kentucky Kansas Michigan Mississippi Ohio Tennessee Alabama Colorado Georgia Maryland Wisconsin Minnesota South Dakota Massachusetts Louisiana Delaware Utah Hawaii Idaho Pennsylvania North Dakota North Carolina Virginia Maine New Jersey Rhode Island South Carolina

U.S. host states

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Programs Mobility achieved July - December 2014 ESL Training Program for Students and Teachers SEP-SRE-Proyecta 100,000 7,500 IME-Becas Program 1,212 SEP-Bécalos-Santander Universidades 296 International Summer programs and another Student and Academic mobility programs 2,900 Total 11,908

And more…

Open Doors 2014, Institute of International Education 14,779 students and more than 1,500 faculty

2014 Results: Total mobility numbers

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Base (inertial mobility)

2015 goal

14,779

46,000 Difference of 31,221

2015 Perspectives: Proyecta 100,000

Base (inertial mobility) 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2014-2018 Student and faculty mobility 14,779 27,000 46,000 64,500 82,000 100,000 319,500 Annual Mobility Goals

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2015 Perspectives: Transversal strategy

Diversification of mobility modalities with a crossed axis on The Energy and Telecommunications Reforms

Federal Government State Governments

Private Companies

Civil Society

HEIs

Funds

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2015 Perspectives: Mobility for strenghtening English Skills

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2015 Perspectives: Other modalities

Other modalities

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Thank You!

Martha Navarro-Albo Director General for Technical and Scientific Cooperation, AMEXCID General Coordinator of Proyecta 100,000 Boston, Massachusetts