The Minister of Education, Pablo da Silveira, said that he will attend the meeting of the Broad Front caucus to give information about the complaint of plagiarism in a document of the “Educational Transformation” plan, but assured that “It doesn’t make any sense for the Minister of Education to be there” and criticized that “An industry of political scandal has been created that is changing”in an interview with the program Arriba Gente (Channel 10).
“20 days ago it was (the club) Villa Española. A whole scandal was createdunusual things were reached, such as a senator changing staff for a weekend. All the life of Nacional, he became Villa Española“, pointed out the head of the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC).
Da Silveira’s statements come after the senator from the Front Amplio Sebastián Sabini reported that the opposition party will summon the authorities of the MEC, the National Administration of Public Education (ANEP) and the Education Training Council (CFE) for alleged plagiarism in the document “Proposals for the Curriculum Design of the undergraduate training of Educators”which according to the opposition contains parts that were plagiarized from the program of the Argentine Ministry of Education, Connect equality.
“It is a serious fact because it is one of the most important documents of the period”Sabini criticized on Twitter, adding that in his opinion the text “breaks” the “regulation of plagiarism and intellectual honesty” approved by the CFE, author of the document, in 2021.
“I will go, of course. Now, the senators who summon me They know perfectly well that it makes no sense for the Minister of Education to be there because this is an ANEP problem.that ANEP has to process and manage, and if the Minister of Education wanted to say something about it would be violating the autonomy (of ANEP)”, Da Silveira emphasized.
The Secretary of State shared ANEP’s version of the case, which maintains that the text in question it’s a “document under construction”. “We are talking about a draft, of an internal document, which is a draftwhich has as many errors as any draft, including this one, which obviously it’s a mistakesaid the hierarch.
For Da Silveira the situation would have been serious if “The day it comes out and is made public and has the backing of the authorities, it comes out like this”. “If it were the final document it would be a catastrophe,” he admitted to The Observer Víctor Pizzichillo, president of the CFE.
