During CADE 2025the former minister and current president of the Continental University, Fernando Barrios, revealed that currently only 20% of the population over 25 years of age has a university education.
The percentages are more worrying if we analyze the interior of the country. Although in Lima the figure reaches 26%, in Huancavelica it is only 7.4%, in Puno it is 9.5% and in Andahuaylas it is 9.9%.
As revealed by Fernando Barrios, the public budget for universities has almost doubled from 2014, when it amounted to S/2,747 million, to 2024 when it reached S/4,835 million, but the number of students served is still low: around 274,000 10 years ago and 316,000 last year.
“The opportunities that public universities have generated for students who choose these institutions have not increased,” he highlighted during his participation in the block “Public services: how do we guarantee government efficiency at the service of citizens.”
The situation is no different in the case of basic education. In that sense, Barrios indicated that the budget has increased, but the infrastructure is deteriorated and the progress and achievements “are null or insignificant.”
“Coverage has not increased,” he said. A piece of information that he also provided with concern is that in 2014, the gap in education was approximately S/77,000 million, but in 2024 it increased to S/158,832 million. “Ten years and we are 10 times worse,” he highlighted.
For his part, former Minister of Economy José Salardi recalled that in Peru 3.31 million people do not have access to drinking water, while nearly seven million do not have sewage.
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