Cadivi has authorized 658 dollar applications for students overseas

<a href=www.vheadline.com>venezuela's Electronic News Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2003 By: Patrick J. O'Donoghue

The government exchange rate administering body (Cadivi) says it has authorized 658 applications for $ 2.8 million dollars to Venezuelan students overseas. 

Among the universities that have filled in all the requirements to authorize dollars for their students abroad are: Universidad de Carabobo (36), Fondo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (43), Universidad de los Andes (170), Universidad Central de Venezuela (93), Universidad Simon Bolivar (29), Universidad Nacional Experimental Politecnica (17), Universidad Centro Occidental Lisandro Alvarado (185) and Universidad del Zulia (85). 

Universities and research institutions must send all the details to the University Sector Planning Office (OPSU), which in turn checks the information before passing it on to Cadivi. 

Universities that have not sent in applications to OPSU are: Yaracuy, Romulo Gallegos, Francisco de Miranda y Tachira technical universities, Universidad de Oriente (UDO), Universidad Pedagogica Experimental Libertador and the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Foundation. 

• Applications from the Guayana, Maritima del Caribe y Los Llanos Ezequiel Zamora experimental universities are currently under review. 

Cadivi has called on universities and educational centers that have students studying abroad to speed up the red tape to alleviate the delicate situation Venezuelan students are confronting abroad as regards university enrollment, social security and residence fees.