President Alberto Fernández declared himself this Wednesday “absolute defender of public education” and said that he will continue working “for the income of teachers and so that they are increasingly better paid.”
“Every day that we take a step in favor of public education is a day of joy,” said the President, leading the presentation of the new Comprehensive Educational Digital Information System for Schools and Students (SInIDE) at the Bicentennial Museum.
accompanied by the Minister of Education, Jaime Perczyk, among other officials.How will the SINIDE
The Comprehensive Educational Digital Information System will strengthen the pedagogical trajectory of students from public and private schools at the initial, primary and secondary levels throughout the country, was officially reported.
In his speech, the President highlighted the “daily effort of Argentine teachers” as well as their “incalculable dedication and vocation” and said that “it is necessary for Argentine society to recognize it”, for which he declared that he will continue working for “his income and so that they are better paid”.
“We need someone who thinks about education, someone about technological development, and someone about cultural development. Not everything is the same. Let’s understand the importance of education, knowledge, science and technology for the development of Argentina “Alberto Fernandez
Fernández explained that the new system is “a transcendental step that helps the daily task of teachers” and, in this sense, indicated that “the task must be made easier for teachers, everything that relieves their work is welcome because they deserve it.”
The president recalled that with the coronavirus pandemic “many children were tempted to stop attending school and from the State we went to their aid.”
Secondly, Fernandez questioned the initiatives and proposals of opposition leaders who propose to unify the Ministries of Education, Science, Technology and Culture, arguing that “they require very different efforts.”
“We need someone who thinks about education, someone about technological development, and someone about cultural development. Not everything is the same. Let’s understand the importance of education, knowledge, science and technology for the development of Argentina Fernandez said in his speech.
In this context, he concluded: “All the money we put into trying to educate, improve and further develop knowledge is the best investment we can make as a society.”
The School Certificate Law
With the presentation, the School Certificate Law is complied withsanctioned by the National Congress in 2018, which establishes the implementation of a school management system at the federal level that records the complete school trajectory of the students of compulsory public and private management education.
The objective is to consolidate a nominal register of students at the initial, primary and secondary levels, according to official information.
Also it seeks to record and manage the entire school and pedagogical trajectory of each student in the country in real time from the classroom and school during the 15 years of their compulsory education.
Another purpose of the initiative is to generate early alerts in situations of abandonment or school intermittence and design re-linking educational policies for general and individual cases.
Likewise, it aims to depaper the administrative tasks of the school and eliminate the duplication of tasks by teachers and managers.
State resources to be implemented
According to the information, the resources provided by the national State for the implementation of the system are: 55 thousand computers for schools throughout the country; computer storage servers for each province; and training of provincial teams, teachers, directors and supervisors, and development of an off-line telephone charging application that allows information to be stored without being connected to the Internet.
About the development of digital qualifications, it was recorded that in the year 2023 the secondary students of the country will have a digital degree and a national base of graduates will be created that does not currently exist.
Since its creation in 2012, only four provinces have adopted the system: La Rioja, Jujuy, Salta and Santiago del Estero, according to an official statement.
For its part, in 2022 a total of 19 provinces were incorporated into the new SInIDE.
The provinces that already use the system
Five provinces (Tierra del Fuego, Misiones, La Rioja, Catamarca and Salta) are already using the system and uploading information, while the province of Buenos Aires will start uploading next week in 1500 schools.
Meanwhile, Córdoba, Corrientes and Río Negro are integrating their systems into the national system, and 10 provinces (Santiago del Estero, Santa Cruz, Jujuy, Entre Ríos, Chaco, Chubut, La Pampa, Formosa, Tucumán and Mendoza) are in the preparatory stage. and in conditions to start the load in the 2023 school year, it was specified.
