Universidad Intercultural del Estado de Tabasco

The Intercultural University of the State of Tabasco, is a newly created institution of higher education, published in the Official Newspaper of the Government of the State of Tabasco on April 5, 2006, under the agreement to create, as a decentralized public body, State character , With legal personality and its own heritage, in order to train professionals and intellectuals committed to economic and cultural development at the community, regional and national levels, whose activities contribute to promote a process of revaluation and revitalization of native languages ​​and cultures, as well as As well as the processes of knowledge generation of these peoples, with the power to develop and implement teaching, research, linkage, diffusion and extension programs,From the perspective of recognition and respect of traditional ancestral knowledge and assets. The UIET responds to a real and legitimate demand of the young inhabitants of rural and indigenous areas who have been subjected to a homogeneous preparation, without conditions of equity with an imposed educational model, to which only access the middle and upper classes. The educational offer presented at this institution also responds to the coverage with equity, through the diversification of the offer of the higher education system and creation of new spaces and institutions of higher education offered in the National Education Program 2001- 2006 and based on Article 2. Of our charter.