During the last week a delegation of more than 90 people from the University of the Philippines, led by its Rector, has visited Spain. The University of the Philippines, which is the public university par excellence of the Philippines, with campuses in the main cities of the country, has chosen Spain, and specifically the University of Malaga, to hold an academic meeting of great importance. The visit took place from 25 to 30 October, during which the delegation attended a seminar on the "Modernisation of academic teaching and the implementation of the Bologna Process". They also carried out various extracurricular activities both in Malaga and in other Andalusian cities. This visit is an extraordinary event that is part of the celebrations of the 500th centenary of Spain's encounter with the Philippines, with the arrival of Magellan to the archipelago and the first circumnavigation of the earth completed by Juan Sebastian Elcano.
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