The director of Secondary Education, Jenifer Cherro, was once again at the center of the controversy after it was revealed that she claimed to have a postgraduate degree in Organizational Communication that she never completed.
As reported the daily, the hierarch stated in her resume that she had a graduate degree from the former Bachelor of Communication Sciences (Liccom) that never existed. After being consulted by the media, she recognized that it was a permanent education course and deleted the non-existent title from her institutional CV.
In the curriculum available on the website of the General Directorate of Secondary Education (DGES), it was read until yesterday that Jennifer Cherro is a professor of literature graduated from the Artigas Institute of Professors and a graduate in Communication Sciences from the University of the Republic (Udelar ), but he also added that “he has a Postgraduate Diploma in Organizational Communication also carried out at Udelar.” This also appeared on her social networks, but after being called by the newspaper, she deleted the questioned title from everywhere.
Liccom never offered the graduate degree Cherro claimed to have earned there. Now, on the website of the National Public Education Administration it appears instead that “she is a professor graduated from the Artigas Institute of Professors (IPA) in the subject Literature, graduated in Communication Sciences with a Permanent Education course in Organizational Communication”.
Education Minister Pablo Da Silveira told the newspaper The Observer which is awaiting explanations from the ANEP authorities to later study the issue. His position, he asserted, is not “to do that of the ostrich or to refuse to examine the situation” and that, “when the ANEP authorities finish analyzing the matter and manifest themselves, we will see.”
Cherro and genetic supremacy
Last September, Cherro had been in the eye of the storm after making claims that were called racist and even sparking outcry for impeachment.
The hierarch affirmed that the high numbers of school promotion and the good academic results of the students of the Colonia department were due to a “genetic issue”, alluding to the fact that the different localities of the department have a significant number of descendants of European immigrants.
In an interview with West Radio the hierarch assured that Colonia “is a very vigorous department” and the fact that “that is made up of immigrants, from different colonies, I think also genetically it makes people have a different way of seeing things and of facing life ”.
It is not the only time that Cherro makes claims about genetic supremacy: in January he had said in an interview with the newspaper The Telegraph from Paysandú that “the social composition” of Cologne had an influence on education because “they are descendants of Swiss, German and Italian immigrants”.
