Today and yesterday we visited the IF in the Pernambuco State. They have 16 campuses, a few in and around the State's capital Recife and most of them throughout the State. Yesterday we visited one of the campuses where they deliver agricultural and food technology programs. Today we visited a new campus built in an industrial zone with programs for the petro-chemical and ship-building industry.
Every time we have interesting discussions comparing the systems of Brazil, Peru and Canada. Here a few photos of the industrial programs campus (in the background one of the industry building which are located all around this specific campus built in a new economic development zone)...
Chemistry labs and computer aided design labs next to a variety of industrial control labs...
An interesting program to have explained was the industrial safety diploma program which scores a 100 % graduation rate and responds very well to modern local labor market needs.
The treat for us today was lunch in one of the main beach areas of Recife called "Porto de Galinhas". The story behind this name comes from the slavery time when locals would say - when a ship with slaves from Africa arrived - that "Galinhas estao en o porto" (the chicken are in the harbor). The slavery thankfully ended but the name of the small port remained. A local artist has made funny chicken statues everywhere in town to give the name more modern meaning...
Bikes for rent for the tourists and also the (in)famous sand dune "buggies" (the drivers drive you through the dunes with or without "emocao" (= emotion) which means in a quiet way or a pretty crazy rollercoaster kind of way). We had no time for that, but I remember this from years ago when I was a few days in nearby Natal...
We had lunch in a lovely fish restaurant and enjoyed the views for a while... and dragged ourselves back to the work meetings.....
Tomorrow morning very early on our way to Brasilia (2 hour flight from Recife) for the last 2 days
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