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Institutional development · Student experience, equity and outcomes · Mexico

UNAM hosts dropout-prevention gathering highlighting student wellbeing and new technologies

Specialists, researchers and academics met at UNAM's Exhibition and Congress Centre to exchange experiences, share research results and propose new strategies for preventing university dropout.

Photo: Malomalverde / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Why it matters: Specialists, researchers and academics meeting at UNAM set out to share research results and propose new strategies for preventing students from dropping out.

Gaceta UNAM reported that the Exhibition and Congress Centre of UNAM, Mexico's National Autonomous University, brought together specialists, researchers and academics on the subject of students leaving university.

According to the university's newsroom, the gathering aimed to exchange experiences, present research findings and put forward new strategies to prevent dropout.

Gaceta UNAM's headline describes student wellbeing and new technologies as keys to preventing university dropout.

Editor’s view

Rachel Smith, Students and International Editor

The specialists, researchers and academics who met at UNAM shared experiences and research on dropout, and Gaceta UNAM presented student wellbeing and new technologies as the central themes for prevention.

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