From Kyrgyzstan to Colombia

The past five days I was in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. I assisted in the admission committee for the very first intake of students for the 5 year Bachelor programs of the University of Central Asia (UCA) which will start program delivery in September at one of its three campuses in the mountainous regions of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. Seneca has worked with the UCA academic team to develop the curriculum for the first (preparatory) year.

Tonight I arrived in Bogota for work with our colleagues of SENA. It is nice to be back in the city where I lived and worked during 2013. The government of Colombia signed today the peace accord with the FARC which could be a historic moment to finally bring an end to 50 years of internal armed conflict in the country. The national football (soccer) team of Colombia lost last night in the semi-finals of the "Copa Americana" from Chile. You can't win them all. But it would have been fun to watch the Colombian team play on a TV in a local sports bar in the finals on Sunday....