The graduate degree in Venezuela and their social impact in the investigative formation

Abstract

The graduate degree is part of the Venezuelan university education and it represents the fourth and fifth levels of the educational system in that country. It is directed to professionals in order to give answer to the scientific, humanistic and technological advance that characterizes to the world of the current times.  The present work is framed in the actions of improvement and elevation of the quality of the studies of graduate degree of the National Experimental Polytechnic University of the National Armed Force (UNEFA), nucleus Sucre, of Venezuela. In the same one weaknesses are detected that should be overcome. Taking into account the above-mentioned, the objective of the present work is: to reveal the contradictions of the graduate degree in the UNEFA, to determine their social impact, with the purpose of perfecting its process. The necessary information was obtained by means of documental revision, analysis of databases of the University and polls of opinions among applicants to Schoolmaster.