In terms of education, the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane) published the results of the Higher Education Cost Index (Ices) of the first half of 2022.
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According to the data provided, in the first semester of 2022 the variation was 6.41%higher by 5.16 percentage points than that registered in the second half of 2021, when there was a variation of 1.25%.
According to information from the entity, the behavior of these variations in recent years was volatile between growth and decreases.
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For 2018, the rate presented in the first semester was 4.14%, however, for the same period of the following year (2019), it decreased reaching 2.16%.
Similarly, the results for 2020 had an increase reaching 3.43% in the first half, unlike 2021, in which the rate fell to 1.18%.
The cost group with the greatest variation was that of personnel expenses, which registered a difference of 6.43%which, according to the Dane, was 5.32 percentage points higher than the rate observed in the second half of 2021, which was 1.11%.
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In the case of the six-monthly variation by type of institution, Universities with 6.65% were the only ones that presented a change higher than the national averagewhich was 6.41%.
Meanwhile, in the case of Technological Institutions, these reached 6.38%, University Institutions 5.26% and Technical Institutions 5.02%. The three presented variations lower than the average.
The classes of costs that contributed the most to the semester variation were managerial and professional level (9.27%) and professors other than teaching hours (5.72%).
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