After a good last Ecuadorian coffee in Guayaquil, it was time to check out the coffee in Colombia. Back here after four years! At the airport straight for one of the nice coffee brands....
The next day I noticed this in a coffee shop: "love must be like coffee - sometimes strong and sometimes sweet, sometimes alone and sometimes in company, but never cold". This store also had the famous Dutch "stroopwafels".....
We had a good program at the SENA headquarters in the office building where I worked during 2013 (see the blog posts from that year for those stories). SENA offers applied education and training programs to around 7 million students each year almost everywhere in the country; a truly amazing organization. We are looking at cooperation opportunities these days between SENA and Seneca.
During the afternoon we visited their campus for financial training programs. Unbelievable as it sounds to us, but they train here annually 55,000 students in programs of 18-24 months. We met with the management team delivering these programs at the top floor and enjoyed afterwards some of the nice views over the city of Bogota.
They offer English to all the students in just two language laboratories and because of the high number of students these labs are used seven days in the week (including Saturday and Sunday!) from early in the morning till late in the evening.
SENA organizes many competitions for their students (above one for students in the accountancy programs); lots of project based learning and making use of case studies. Modern teaching techniques used which is great to see. Tomorrow we are going to another training center in Bogota and then we fly to Medellin where we will also visit a few of their campuses.
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