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The Visiting Lecturers Program at San Marcos University

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

María Luisa H. Aguilar*
Affiliation:
Av. Arica 830, Lima 5, Peru

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Professors and students of San Marcos University (USM) have found that the Visiting Lecturers Program (VLP) of the IAU has helped to improve the study of astronomy in Peru. The Peruvian people and I are profoundly grateful.

The VLP and the International Schools for Young Astronomers (ISYA) advised us, pointing our perspectives and capacity for work in the correct direction. I feel that both the VLP and the ISYA are noble expressions of the universal message of scientific collaboration, and are the voices of the highest altruism of the astronomers who participate in them.

With reference to the VLP, the state of astronomy education can be described in three parts:

Type
13. Developing Countries
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