The University of the Hesperides establishes an open dialogue with a dozen businessmen and directors from the Canary Islands for the design of their degrees.

January 4, 2020 19:46

The Universidad de las Hespérides, He maintained an open dialogue over the past few months through various meetings and conversations with directors and companies about ongoing programs to gather their view on different aspects that make up the university's academic offer, such as teaching method, employability of future students or the main challenges facing higher education in our time.

In this way, over thirty company executives from the archipelago have been summoned for a consultation centered around axes such as:

  • In the Universidad de las Hespérides,All students, regardless of the title they aspire to, must acquire knowledge and competencies in subjects such as the foundations of science, psychology, history, law, business, entrepreneurship, philosophy, and economics. Would you consider it valuable that members of your work team had received a comprehensive training like this?
  • Do you think these degree programs are conducive to forming good professionals?
  • Do you consider that graduates from titles related to your field will have a high level of employability?
  • What does she think are the challenges of higher education in the 21st century?
  • The Universidad de las Hespérides, Will it offer all its programs in a virtual mode (online)? Do you think this teaching modality is useful for the students of our archipelago?

The institutions and main executives who participated in the surveys were as follows:

Francisco López Sánchez. CEO Grupo LOPESAN.

Santa Cruz de Tenerife Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Services and Navigation.

Nicolás Villalobos Mestres. General Manager BE Cordial Hotels.

José Fernando Cabrera. President of the Golf Resort Group.

Alberto Santana. CEO Grupo Santana Cazorla.

Juan Andrés Melián Suarez. President of Viajes Insular and advisor to Tirma.

Marcelino Villalobos. Desk of Lawyers Villalobos.

Magüi Melián Villalobos. CEO Grupo Domingo Alonso.

Alberto Villalobos Márquez. President of Femete and General Director of SOTESA.

Zoilo Alemán. Director of MICE for Lopesan Hotel Management.

Victoria López. President of Fedola Group.

Víctor Portugués. General Secretary of ASINCA.

Jaime Manrique de Lara Machado. General Manager of the Commercial Division of El Corte Inglés in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, and former General Manager of the Commercial Division of El Corte Inglés in the Canary Islands.

Manuel Sánchez. CEO at Mazda Canarias and CEO at Grupo Rafael Afonso.

Gabriela Díaz-Saavedra Zerolo. Director of Human Resources at Astican.

Victoria González. Financial Director of Grupo Chafiras.

José González González. Secretary General of Femete.

Tina Sonck. General Director of Canariasviaja.com

Antonio Afonso. President of Glassydur.

Ruperto Santana. General Manager of Inerza S.A.

Marco López. General Manager of Dreamplace Hotel.

Luis Fernández Valencia. Human Resources Director at Canaragua Concessions, S.A.

Caja Seven.

Naviera Insular de Transportes Frigoríficos S.A.

Costa Volcán S.A.

Lanzarote Tourist Establishments S.A.

Talasoterapia de las Canteras S.A.

The 100% of respondents considered it right that students of the programs of Universidad de las Hespérides, had a formation in entrepreneurship and that 91% found valuable the incorporation of content and competencies in subjects such as the fundamentals of science, law, history or philosophy. In addition, 94% of those surveyed stated that the virtual modality was useful for students from the Canary Islands archipelago.