The Icetex has become an entity of love and hate. While many young people have been able to study their professional careers thanks to the entity’s subsidized credits, other students have joined the list of delinquent Yocetex and consider that they do not provide payment facilities.
For that reason, the new president of Icetex, Mauricio Toro, has said that seeking to recover the trust of young people and the students in the entity.
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In that sense, he gave a piece of calm regarding one of the promises made by the president Gustavo Petro in his campaign, and it is the forgiveness of educational credits, given that there are hundreds of thousands of students who are indebted for their university studies, which on many occasions they had to abandon.
“(The forgiveness) It will happen because it is a promise of President Gustavo Petro. It will be for a number of credits under specific conditions that we are analyzing,” Toro said in an interview for El Colombiano.
In this sense, Toro specified that the forgiveness of credit debts seeks to favor strata 1, 2 and 3 and will be carried out after an analysis that will be carried out and with which they hope to forgive the debt of approximately ten thousand credits.
Regarding the issuance of new educational credits, he assured that alternatives will be sought to seek better conditions for students.
“We are analyzing the possibility that students can acquire much better social credits and for that we are going to look for the nation’s budget, the issue of the issuance of educational bonds and international cooperation,” added the president of Icetex.
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Finally, he assured that regardless of the educational credits that the student takes, It will be sought that no student pay more than 30% of their salary for the credit installment.
“We are going to contemplate several mechanisms that will allow us to advance with the reduction of rates until we reach fairer ones that people can pay, where 30% of the student’s income is not exceeded in each installment they end up paying”he concluded.
